Sentence examples for spoke a second language from inspiring English sources

Mark Twain once said that waiters were the only Frenchmen who spoke a second language.

Did any of you raise children who spoke a second language that wasn't your own, and how did you bring it off?

Actually, despite my sarcasm, I'm appreciative of his efforts — any American who has traveled overseas knows that if more of us spoke a second language, we'd have, if nothing else, a better international reputation.

In Luxembourg, an astonishing 99 per cent of people said they spoke a second language, while Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark and Sweden had more than 90 per cent of people fluent in another tongue.

Thirteen (17.1%) families also spoke a second language.

This led to a total sample size of 403 students (56%% female; mean age 13.3 years, SD = 0.86) who completed the questionnaire at Time 1, 2, and 3. Sixty-eight percent of participants spoke a second language at home; with Arabic being the most commonly spoken language (60 %) followed by other (non-specified) languages (12 %) and Vietnamese (9 %).

By 1976, nine years before the first episode of Neighbours screened, 20% of the city's population spoke a first language other than English.

Many educated or urban Danes have learned to speak a second language, particularly English.

"I'm embarrassed I can't speak a second language fluently," Haden said.

People who speak a second language are now not going to be harassed on trains tomorrow".

Parents cite different reasons for hiring baby sitters and nannies to speak a second language with their children.