Sentence examples for modern languages for from inspiring English sources

Susan Coontz has been teaching modern languages for 27 years.

In short, I think that it's a mistake to substitute modern languages for an ancient universal one that does not bear the stamp of cultural hegemony.

In 1953 Bennett turned down a place at Oxford to read modern languages for a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.

In homage to this belief, Babylonian priests devised the week of seven days, whose names even in various modern languages (for example, English, French, or Norwegian) can still easily be traced to their origins in the seven planet-gods.

Far Cry Primal is set in 10,000 BCE, a time when English wasn't exactly the common tongue – let alone any other modern language, for that matter.

Oxford said its own admissions figures showed an application success rate for modern languages of 31.6% in 2009, 29.1% in 2010 and 33.4% in 2014.

We would also like to thank the Institut of Modern Languages of San Jorge University for translation of the manuscript and Professor Anand Pandyan and Dr. Sybil Farmer from Keele University for advice about English style in the final version of the manuscript.

In Europe, the Council of Europe's European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) is responsible for the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Language (EPOSTL).

Beginning in the 15th century, more distinct literary languages developed, in part as points of departure for modern languages (e.g., Ottoman for Modern Turkish or Chagatai for Uzbek and Modern Uighur).

The first question considered is how useful is the contemporary 'crisis narrative' of the Anthropocene for understanding the planetary history of hazards and disasters, and is the modern language of disaster risk reduction useful for understanding past disasters?

A separate study, commissioned by the then Department for Children, Schools and Families, and released on Wednesday, found that modern languages were compulsory for 14-year-olds in fewer than a fifth of English schools last year, with the numbers much lower among schools with the highest number of pupils from poor backgrounds.