How to Use second language in a Sentence

second language

noun

• Most of us who want to learn Ojibwe now have to take on the challenge of learning it as a second language.
  — John-Paul Chalykoff, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
• Simply wanting the skill of speaking a second language is one many long to have.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
• What if the student was struggling with English as a second language?
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• In turn, this is setting them up for being more versed in that second language than would an adult that learns the second language while an adult.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• There are fewer than 50 first-language Ho-Chunk speakers in the world, but the tribe has had a lot of recent success in teaching it as a second language.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2024
• Jude Bellingham was leading chants in his second language.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• And that’s why learning a second language may be a great idea, especially for jet setters.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
• And Sámi is now the official second language of Norway.
  — Karla Grant, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• There, Denogean was a substitute teacher who taught English as a second language.
  — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
• Tuchman spoke English as a second language, and her parents were unaware of all available resources.
  — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• His son, Mohamad Dahir, is the owner of the store and said that his father's comments were inappropriate and were due to English being his second language.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
• There are many benefits to learning a second language in early childhood.
  — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 15 July 2024
• The actor, who is from Puerto Rico and speaks English as a second language, was nervous about his character’s clear British accent.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
• Diana Mendoza heads the English as a second language program at a school district in Kansas where some of her students work overnight shifts in dangerous jobs.
  — Lara Fernandez, NBC news, 12 Apr. 2023
• Learn more › Learning a second language as an adult is often more difficult than people might expect.
  — Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
• Fitzalan High School serves one of the most diverse and disadvantaged communities in Wales, and 70% percent of students speak English as a second language.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• And legislation in Connecticut would create a bill of rights for parents of students learning English as a second language.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2023
• The report also noted that technical colleges are required by state law to provide a range of services to students free of tuition, such as English as a second language classes and adult high school.
  — Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• There are 63 million people whose first language is Italian, with an additional 3 million who speak it as a second language, according to Babbel.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
• The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity Esperanto was intended to be an easy-to-learn second language that enabled you to speak with anyone on the planet.
  — Big Think, 24 June 2024
• Some of the new programs for fall include virtual youth and adult American Sign Language and English as a second language classes, park district officials said.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
• Roughly one-fifth of Texas’ nearly 5.5 million public school students are classified as learning English as a second language.
  — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Learning a second language can enrich your life in so many ways — from the ability to communicate with millions of people in their native language and read books and magazines in that tongue to boosting your brain's functions.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
• English is the second language of most of her students, so vocabulary and grammar—the exact things QuilBot and Grammarly target—are still important assessment points.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
• Students learning English as a second language make up almost a third of families at Beaumont and more than a quarter of Rancho Minerva families.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• Some teacher certification areas — such as English as a second language, health science and special education — are short on teachers from pre-K through the 12th grade.
  — Daranee Balachandar, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2024
• Europeans, obliged to work in English as a second language, are more likely to consider that fluency in only one language may be far rarer than conflict among multiple tongues.
  — Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
• And those schools disproportionately enroll higher percentages of high needs students, students of color and those who speak English as a second language, Levin said.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• Still others teach English as a second language to first-generation immigrants.
  — Todd Sixt, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• This added to the sheer numbers of elementary age children and children in second language programs, and therefore, reading proficiency suffered.
  — Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Aug 2024