Sentence examples similar to take up a language from inspiring English sources

This transition, to Postman, meant that mankind was leaving behind evidence, forethought, and eloquence and instead took up a language made up of constantly moving pictures.

A professor had suggested that she take up a non-European language: he favored Icelandic.

"A period away from work", Stylist tells us, "can be hugely positive – time to learn a language, take up a hobby".

I don't have any great desire to learn a second language, take up a new sport, or play the guitar.

Take up a new hobby, learn a new language or even taking a short trip.

Do crossword puzzles, learn a new language, or take up a hobby you were always too busy for.

Firstly, languages would take up a lot more time in the curriculum.

When he took early retirement last year from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, as the unit had become, he wanted to take up a musical instrument, learn some foreign languages and cultivate his garden.

He has clung to cricket, he said recently, because it's his "athletic mother tongue," and to learn baseball, say, would be like taking up a foreign language.

Across America in the '70s, kids of all backgrounds and locales engaged with music of all kinds: encouraged to take up an instrument and introduced to a language far better equipped to express the huge range of kid emotions than school book poetry.

Learn a musical instrument or a foreign language, take up an art form like painting, start building projects — whatever it is that catches your interest.