The phrase "speak language" is not a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It would be more correct to say "speak a language," for instance: "She speaks two languages fluently."
Because, so the theory goes, you don't speak language.
There's a sense in which we speak language and a sense in which, in Mallarmé's famous phrase, "language itself speaks".
Children on the mission – such as the singer's mother – "had the language belted out of them, they weren't allowed to speak language.
In defence of the centrality of language in human history, Ostler argues that it is language that enables people to form communities and to share a common history: indeed, by the very act of the old teaching the young to speak, language is also central to the establishment and reproduction of tradition.
#bbcqt #myth January 16, 2014 BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) MT: @elMurpho If someone comes to UK, has no money, no skills, doesn't speak language & gets job you want, maybe you're the problem #bbcqt January 16, 2014 Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) We're such a 'small island' - yet we use as much land for golf courses in England as we do for homes.
"People like my mum who didn't know language, it's been quite sad for her, and recently she's been saying 'would you teach me to speak language?'" And while the community is divided as to who has the right to speak it, Williams believes that with so few speakers left, anyone who wants to learn should be given the opportunity to do so.
