Sentence examples for shaky language from inspiring English sources

Otherwise Catalonia and the Basque country would have been as content within Spain as Languedoc and Brittany are within France.Perhaps because the historic claim to nationhood is shaky, language has become an obsession for the nationalists.

When I went on my year abroad to Paris, everyone from relatives to colleagues and strangers in bars told me I needed to find a French lover if I wanted to improve my shaky language skills.

Like a lot of situations that involve the cops using shaky legal language to bust people for supposed crimes, it's often some poor son of a bitch on the sidelines who ends up getting the sharp end of the justice system's stick.

Shukria's class is a mix of immigrant children still shaky in their new language -- some after being illiterate in their old language -- and native-born classmates hobbled by poverty, by broken families, by emotional problems, by parents who are too drained after work to take them to the library or help with homework.

If you want to get something done with a computer, it turns out, there are better ways to do it than laboriously type out conversational sentences to be read by a programme with a shaky grasp of the language and a gratingly affected sense of humour.

Jack has a shaky grasp on time and language — events could have happened days ago, or years, or a word can easily slip free of its meaning.

A young recent graduate with shaky Mandarin as a second language would have a hard time trying to break out of the so-called English-teaching trap.

One problem is that since the focus is on communication rather than on accurate and secure knowledge and skills, pupils can achieve high grades with very shaky command of the foreign language, both written and spoken.

The shaky financial existence of the Danish-language theatre may have led the worried Holberg to write Den danske comoedies liigbegiængelse (1726; "The Burial of Danish Comedy"; Eng. trans. in Jeppe of the Hill and Other Comedies).

Initially she was hesitant: there was the language barrier, and also her shaky health.

Hagège is especially shaky in his early implication that the death of a language deprives people of language itself, a hallmark of being human.