Sentence examples for the community language from inspiring English sources

Until then, they are monolingual and can communicate only in their parents' mother tongue, having limited skills in the community language.

After all, for years educationalists have been recommending to families like mine, where both mum and dad speak the minority language, to communicate with their children only in their mother tongue and leave introducing the community language to the community itself.

Translate everything your child is saying in the community language into your minority language.

Parents can communicate with the child in their minority language while he or she acquires the community language from friends, strangers in a shop, a playground etc.

This is why, when asked whether I would prefer to concentrate on introducing to my son the community language or I'd rather speak to him in my native language, my answer from the start was: why not do both?

A number of parents use it consciously and abide rigorously for the sake of reinforcing the minority language ("I never ever speak to my child in the community language, no matter where we are and who we talk to") because they believe that their mother tongue needs to be reinforced before the child starts school so that he or she didn't drop this language.

Just 1.8% of the population speaks Irish daily outside of the education system, mostly in the Gaeltacht regions, those small, mainly western pockets of the country where Irish is the main community language (see map).

And although Spanish is now the main community language, there are perhaps as many as 5,000 people in Chubut today who still speak Welsh, and in recent years there has been a significant revival of interest in all things Welsh.

The language functioned as a community language in Cornwall until a language shift to the English language was completed during the late 18th century.

Recruitment information will be made available in English, Arabic, Vietnamese, Khmer, and Chinese - the predominant community languages used in south western Sydney.

Teresa Tinsley, director, Alcantara Communications 3. Acknowledge – and challenge – the language hierarchy In schools, community language education provision is very different across languages and communities.