Sentence examples for native language life from inspiring English sources

And on the St. Martin, there lives its owner, a small, muscular Vietnamese-born American named Thuong Nguyen, whose right forearm bears a tattoo that says, in his native language: "Life is difficult".

But it also reflected the bitterness which danced attendance on him as he grew old, that he had learnt his native language too late in life to write poetry in it.

But this violent desire to erase a life in a native language is only wishful thinking.

Dying on a ranch in Northern California in 1999, he steals away from his American family each night to document his early life in his native language.

Never Give up - You have spent your entire life working on understanding your native language; German won't come to you unless you make the effort.

Although my native language is Portuguese, that was the first time in my life I felt like I was speaking my language.

Children are thought to develop a neural commitment to their native language (L1) such that when acquiring a second language later in life, their L1 phonetic categories interfere with their production and perception of non-native target sounds (see, e.g., Iverson et al., 2003).

Virtually extinct as a native language by the 4th century CE, the authors write, Hebrew returned to life in the 1880s.

Most young people in Britain whose native language is not English believe speaking a second language is an advantage in life.

A new study finds that, in the first few days of life, babies produce cries that mimic the melodies of their native language.

By the end of their first year of life, infants have become experts in discriminating the sounds of their native language, while they have lost the ability to discriminate non-native contrasts.