a foreign language.As a recent article in The Guardian newspaper noted, “There’s more to understanding a joke in a foreign language than understanding vocabulary and grammar.”Being able to understand ……

, members tutor one another, drawing on their expertise (专长) in their own native language.Members chat...-minded learners who can use their native language proficiency (熟练) to help one another," said Shirish ……

understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”... completed the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) 3 exam. HSK is a test of Chinese language proficiency (水平 ……

Besides the UK and other European countries, Spain has become an overseas study hotspot in recent years.There are three major reasons for considering Spain as an educational destination: the Spanish ……

. Dang Rui, a third-year student at XFLU, is one of the many students who attend to find native... Foreign Language University to practise their spoken English.Most of them are from Xi'an Foreign Language ……

spoke Mandarin as a first language. 3. _______had the second-largest number of native speakers. There were 300 million people who spoke Spanish as a first language. There were about 4. __________ native ……

.The Hefei Student Library opened a Tibetan branch (分馆) in the school late last month. The Tibetan students now have a chance to read books in their native language (母语) in the library. ……

Continental EuropeENGLISH is less commonly heard in countries such as France, Germany, and Spain... without learning a little of the native lingo. However, don’t despair - English shares a lot of words ……

speaker.During his speech, Crystal questioned the notion of "the native language." (It is commonly assumed that a native speaker of a language will have been raised in a country where that language ……

student visa. As part of the Schengen area, Spain shares a similar visa application procedure.... This trend has clearly continued into 2013, with more than 6,000 Chinese students studying in Spain ……

, this language is on the brink of disappearing in a few generations. Navajo and Ojibwa, both native...Language follows power. In an increasingly globalized world, languages which dominate communication ……

The Bell Language Schools provide English language courses for almost 30,000 students in the UK... questions about language.QuestionWhile I am studying English, I often come across new words in books ……

西班牙，你还好吗？SHANGHAI student Fang Xueyang visited Spain a month ago. On her return, she found herself missing Spain so much that she wrote a letter to the country she had visited. Here is the letter ……

Football has some of the most colourful and vivid expressions in the English language.How footy-lovers talkFootball fans have a special language to communicate with each other. See how much you can ……

language. There were about 4. _________ native Hindi speakers. 5. _________ native speakers was 206...The table below tells us how many native speakers there were for six different languages in 1997 ……