Sentence examples for were bilingual from inspiring English sources

His parents were bilingual in English and German.

The Kaulukukui boys were bilingual; they could "code switch," as we would say now.

Thirty-six nativEnglishspeakersers who were bilingual were scanned with high resolution MRI.

"I met some wives who were bilingual, and they helped me out a lot.

Many people were bilingual: graffiti prove that even artisans wrote Latin.

She also reached for a Spanish-speaking audience; her duets with Juanes and Mr. Torres were bilingual love songs.

To find out, Bialystok and her colleagues collected data from 184 people with diagnoses of dementia, half of whom were bilingual.

"My parents [who were from Abruzzi] wanted American kids," he says, "and my sister and I had no motive in speaking Italian, though my parents were bilingual.

Paul Rose, a spokesman for the Department of Education, said that many parent coordinators were bilingual and that language skills were taken into account when they were selected.

The real imbalance lay in the fact that many of the Irish speakers were bilingual, whereas few of the English speakers were.

In many cases the poets were bilingual, excelling in both Arabic and Persian (a gift shared by many non-Arab writers up to the 19th century).