How to Use second language in a Sentence
second language
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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
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Simply wanting the skill of speaking a second language is one many long to have.
—Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
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What if the student was struggling with English as a second language?
—Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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Jude Bellingham was leading chants in his second language.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
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And that’s why learning a second language may be a great idea, especially for jet setters.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
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And Sámi is now the official second language of Norway.
—Karla Grant, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2023
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There, Denogean was a substitute teacher who taught English as a second language.
—Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
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Tuchman spoke English as a second language, and her parents were unaware of all available resources.
—Geri Stengel, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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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
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There are many benefits to learning a second language in early childhood.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 15 July 2024
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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
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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
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Learn more › Learning a second language as an adult is often more difficult than people might expect.
—Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Still others teach English as a second language to first-generation immigrants.
—Todd Sixt, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
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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
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