Sentence examples for specialist languages from inspiring English sources

It was ironic that Clayton high school in his Newcastle constituency had opted to become a specialist languages school yet if pupils wanted to study, say, French and German, they would be unable to do so locally.

One of my prize possessions is a 560-page dictionary of mat that I found at Grant and Cutler, a specialist languages bookshop in London.The dictionary, published in Moscow in 1997 by one Professor Tatiana Akhmetova, seems to be an academic lexicon rather than a survey of current usage.

Internal scientific communication in respective specialist languages became established.

They speak a specialist language.

St Peter's CofE is a good choice after that; it's a specialist language college.

But specialist language colleges, set up partly to help secondary schools, have had "little impact".

Investment in language learning, training specialist language teachers and linking language learning at primary and secondary schools is vital.

Whereas in 1998, there were 93 universities offering specialist language degrees, now only 56 do, a 40% drop.

Our findings show that 24 universities have shut all specialist language degrees (straight single honours or joint honours with another language) since our last analysis six years ago.

With the exception of the specialist language colleges and grammar schools, it is the independent sector keeping modern foreign languages alive and providing a disproportionate number of undergraduates.

And although specialist language degrees are suffering, joint-honours degrees with a language component, such as law with French, are holding up.