There were girls in hijab, girls for whom English was a second language, girls whose skin made up every shade of brown. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Each tribe had its own language, religion, norms and customs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to find everything funny, teasing Barack for not being able to speak her language. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was awed by how many of the languages I didn't know. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Sorry about the foul language, Jupiter,” from Brit. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They sing, an antique language as ragged and strange as their beards, a language closer to mine than to their own. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Temper, temper! Tut tut! Such language! If your mother could hear you!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All but one of the world’s six most populous nations are melting pots that achieved political unification recently, and that still support hundreds of languages and ethnic groups. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Watch your language,” my dad said behind me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It is an example of what is called poetical language. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Nat wished he had had a grammar and dictionary of their language, too. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were things to look for, an unspoken language of movement and form to decipher, passwords to exchange, and glances to decode. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Afrikaner was traditionally hostile to Africans learning English, for English was a foreign tongue to the Afrikaner and the language of emancipation to us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Churchill consciously marshaled, as the best orators will, not only the language of the past but its history to his cause- invoking Drake and Nelson as exemplars and, implicitly, allies in the struggle. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He read the letter as another student in the class did irreparable damage to the French language and a short story by de Maupassant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But until our language has a sex-neutral possessive that everyone can agree on, we’re stuck with his, her, or the clumsy compound his or her if we want to be correct. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They can’t be expected to learn the languages of all the different species they deal with, babbling across the galaxy, some of them speaking in smells or patterned light. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did, one night, question Bono, the other whispering to him in their language. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Of course it is a language. It is not a big language like human speech, but it is large.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Olmec,” though, is a word in Nahuatl, the language of the Mexica to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every language expert from Dr Johnson onwards has accepted that it’s a mistake to attempt to “embalm the language”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m so lucky. Other guys have sisters that set them up with dates with gorgeous girls. Me. I got a sister who makes me more aware of the language.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-reliefs, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic system based on an ovoid shape that has no name in European languages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Open, open! he shouted, and followed it with the same command in every language that had ever been spoken in the West of Middle-earth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

My parents were having a difficult time parenting in America because they didn’t know the language or the culture. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In addition, Xhosa and a few other Niger-Congo languages of southern Africa are full of clicks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mesoamerican peoples left behind texts that are slowly giving up their secrets, but in other areas the lack of written languages has left a great silence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said, “Delphine, I know your father spoke to you girls about using that Black Panther language down here.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

After a while, controlling himself, he said calmly, “You spoke in my language.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then we got to the dance and she didn’t speak anyone’s language. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Climb down from the tall tree, my little one,” she said in her own language. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ships came into port from all over the world. I heard many foreign languages. I saw sailors who wore turbans, and black sailors from Africa. This was just part of my daily life.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In every sentence they menace our poor veins. Their language is as frightful to the ears of the alarmed multitude as the raven’s croak to those of the sickly flock.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Despite their brevity, they are full of information, both because of the nature of written language, and because of the special way Mesoamerican people chose their names. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rowan launched himself at Citra, threw a kick that he telegraphed with his body language, and missed her by a fraction of an inch. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Even the surrounding hills were hushed, as if brought low by language. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Mahabharata is one of two ancient poems. It was written in Sanskrit, an ancient Indic language that is no longer spoken.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The teacher droned on with the lesson, about the Arabic language. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A complete answer to that question would be long and complex, since Western music, like any living language shared by many different communities, has many "local dialects." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It became a best-seller, was rapidly translated into other European languages, and sent a further stream of Spanish colonists to tighten Pizarro’s grip on Peru. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shona was the country's national language, but most people spoke English as a result of being colonized. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The spelling of my country estate is a little difficult for those unacquainted with the language.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I thank you, because once again you have provided an opportunity for a lesson in language. ‘Distraught’ is too strong an adjective to describe salmon- viewing.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

For all that, it has never been my position that good accent and command of language are not attractive attributes, and I always considered it my duty to develop them as best I could. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sailors babbled in their own languages, afraid to die on the wrong side of the ocean in a world far away from people who knew their names. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My paper might as well have been covered in the etchings of an alien language, written left-handed while standing on my head. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Instead of importing English-speaking slaves from the West Indies, who were more likely to be familiar with European language and culture, many more slaves were shipped directly from Africa. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was so ’shamed of myself for lying that I couldn’t talk no more of this growned-folks language. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In Naima’s village, on International Mother Language Day, when the whole country celebrated the beauty of their Bangla language, the leaders gave a prize to the girl who painted the best alpanas. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The Muscogees called the squatters a name that, in their language, means “people greedily grasping after the land.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the formal curriculum at the university, we would spend our time learning the language, learning the country, and learning more about ourselves than we ever imagined. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I could still hear the sound of voices speaking English in the soft accents of the Luo language, urging me to feel free, feel free, eat more fat from the ram’s tail. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Austronesian languages are spoken in a narrow strip immediately on the north and southeast coasts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was all we could find in each other, this the novel language of our life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He says the language is dying. He thinks words are being debased. So he tries to speak entirely in weird words and irony, so no one can simplify anything he says.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the word disappear from the finch language, from finch society? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I spoke a different language? But — I didn’t realize — how can I speak a language without knowing I can speak it?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Fair fight or not, she wasn’t going to let me dress down my father, not with language, not with anything. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language, laughed at the same jokes, looked more or less the same. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stating the topic is necessary because even the most explicit language can touch on only a few high points of a story. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I found him mumbling in a language of his own creation. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When and where was the language of the fact invented? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The sensei—or teacher—had conducted class in Japanese, and while she could keep up with the spoken language, she couldn’t keep up in the reading and writing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I insist. The more Poe you read, the more familiar his language will be.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mother lifts her gaze to meet Lily’s, a long exchange in a language only they know. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

As they flew over the dark, twisting lane down which they had walked earlier, Harry heard, over the whistling of the night air in his ears, Dumbledore muttering in some strange language again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Wild Boy had so taken control that I was losing the ability to express myself with the conventions of spoken language. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He is peering down at me, speaking rapidly in a language I don’t understand, Urdu, I think. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever it was spoke haltingly, as if English was its second language. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what it meant, or even what language it was in. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He absorbed this slowly, frowning as though he was translating it from another language. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he asks, I speak to him in Spanish, the language that rolls off my tongue like I was born knowing it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Thanks to her mom, Aphrodite, the language of love was hardwired into her, though she didn’t want to speak it with Zethes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It has all the qualities we admire in language: it’s handy, succinct, and economical, and everybody knows what it means. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The water of life? Do I detect a Scottish burr? Any other languages besides German?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Sitting at a crowded table with men who did not share a common language with you, listening to them talk and jape whilst understanding none of it, had quickly grown wearisome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, she prayed, the gods only spoke Chinese, never studied English, would not recognize temptation in another language. “...death, that this will be our secret no matter what.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The language was old-fashioned, and Emily noticed a spelling mistake right off the bat and then another a few sentences later, so she was having trouble getting into the story. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

What was needed was not just new machines but also a new language for discussing machinery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Anthropologists, studying language, had demonstrated that new languages arose from old languages through the transformation of words. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was the language of the King James version of the Bible that was both powerful and beautiful. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

So, too, at first, in the modern languages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think there’s any need for language like that!” said Madam Malkin, scurrying out from behind the clothes rack holding a tape measure and a wand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The origins of their language are among the most disputed questions of linguistics: for not a single other one of the world’s major languages are the affinities to other languages still in doubt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were filled with wonder at the thought of strange lands and unknown languages. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supporters of bilingual education today imply that students like me miss a great deal by not being taught in their family’s language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most linguists specializing in Native American languages do not discern large, clear-cut groupings other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would learn the Algonquian language even better, and I would be able to trade and help the colony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

All of these people spoke variants of Massachusett, a member of the Algonkian language family, the biggest in eastern North America at the time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ophelia had been living among Haitians for months, eating their food and doing her best to speak their language, and who was this new guy invading her turf? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Listen, move, think: Communicating through the languages of music and creative movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She was still staring at the foreign word, trying to picture it mentally in a language she knew. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“My grandfather swore in his first language. It drove my grandmother crazy, because she didn’t speak it. But she sang in Italian when she cooked, so...” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Engine’ and ‘machine’ still have overlapping meanings as a consequence of Descartes’ influence on the English language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I had then jumped ahead to the section on “Natural Selection” but still struggled with the language. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I walked into language arts knowing Audrey would be saving a seat for me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I am well, Your Highness,” she answered in his language. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When she entered the circle they looked at her and smiled, and then someone next to her fingered the cloak she was wearing and spoke to another in a musical language she didn’t understand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if you’ve heard stories of safety, opportunity, and prosperity, it’s still a leap to remove yourself from your own language, people, and country. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Taking first the Ainu language, that language as we know it is the one that was spoken in recent times by the Ainu on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Lysa took no chances. When we were girls together, we had a private language, she and I." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond questions of appearance or language or personal style, the larger problem was imbedded within the political culture of postrevolutionary America itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Pa tells us every day that our number one priority is to go to school and learn to speak many languages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all studied Shona, the official language of Zimbabwe. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the newspaper and said he had “touched” the UFO and that it was “covered in a strange Martian language that looked like chicken feet.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It jabbered something in a foul, raspy language. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They were some of the only people who could speak both the language of elves and of goblins. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Allen said, “Well, I think the real issue is Mrs. Granger’s reaction to a harmless little experiment with language—it’s an overreaction, don’t you think so, Tom?” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will not tolerate that type of language,” Dr. Rhodes calls over them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He spoke a number of languages, ancient and modern, and had published a translation of Anacreon, with commentary, when he was only eighteen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We were herded into long lines to be inspected, interrogated, stamped, and then set loose among hundreds of other immigrants, speaking languages that sounded to my ears like the braying of farm animals. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She hissed and growled in her ancient language, but I didn’t need a translation to know she was planning to kill us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The translation boxes on our chests repeated our words out loud in the language of the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Black-on-black crime” is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Oho? English schoolboys in our enlightened 1980s cannot read a book in a foreign language?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They forced her to teach in Russian, even though many children did not yet fully understand the language. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In class, my teacher, Ms. Wilson, didn't know what to do with me because of the language barrier, and she plunked down some math problems in front of me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A white soldier reentered the building, and the black man smoothly switched back to the language of the whites. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rests are as important to the music as are the sounded rhythms because, just like language, rests use silence to help organize the sounds so we can better understand them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“My girls and I have known each other for a long time, Shayla. I guess you could say we speak the same language.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

‘In the language of Orthanc help means ruin, and saving means slaying, that is plain. But we do not come here to beg.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When they began speaking the angel language again, they looked around as though they weren’t sure what might be lurking in the darkness. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to Chihuahua,” I lied in perfect Spanish, a task that was not difficult, since Spanish was our first language. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He teaches me the language of the stars and the koka leaves and the secrets of Beyond. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

To borrow a trope from the historian Alfred Crosby, if Genghis Khan had arrived with the Black Death, this book would not be written in a European language. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But all those other languages must have disappeared—either because the people speaking them survived but lost their original language, like the Pygmies, or because the people themselves disappeared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This week in language arts we talked about description. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dr. Calvin masked impatience, “It doesn’t make much sense, I admit, in lay language; but there is no conceivable use in presenting the mathematics of this. I assure you, it is as I say.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The organizers combed all the cultures and languages of the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shawn had a gift for language, for using it to define others. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most of us will be untroubled by that sort of dilemma: decorum is fitting the language to the task. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The childrens are not related to each other and do not all speak the same language. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We’ve travelled about. Mr. Ratchett wanted to see the world. He was hampered by knowing no languages. I acted more as a courier than as a secretary. It was a pleasant life.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of China’s 1.2 billion people, over 800 million speak Mandarin, the language with by far the largest number of native speakers in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They talk about music being “a world within itself” and how it’s “a language we all understand.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He was no nobleman, belonging to any aristocracy, no artisan belonging to any guild and finding refuge in it, sharing its life and language. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes on my language arts book and call to him from my bed. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Now, with Billy speaking clearly and to the point, Rumfoord’s ears wanted to treat the words as a foreign language that was not worth learning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the language of the day, they had “psychosis” and “severe neurosis”—terms that were sometimes applied to William, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Because otherwise she’d scream at the ladies in three different languages and they’d treat her like even more of an animal. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I've never known him to swear, yet he and my brother seem to have found a common language that eludes the rest of us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Today, by far the largest number of people whose first language is English live in North America, with others scattered over the globe in Britain, Australia, and other countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the din of different languages echoing in the room, she hears a voice behind her speaking words she understands. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I suspect that the Korean language that was carried to Japan in 400 B.C., and that evolved into modern Japanese, was quite different from the Silla language that evolved into modern Korean. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The writing is in pidgin English and Spanish and Mandarin and then languages I have never seen. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Ruth May had been feeling up to snuff she’d have already climbed aboard and started jabbering with the Fowles children in probably all those languages plus French and Siamese. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a superior tongue, a luminous language, the kind of English he heard on Master’s radio, rolling out with clipped precision. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Nothing could capture your personality. The English language is too limited.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will speak the language of animals and wipe their blood from my teeth. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their speech was formal and lofty, their manner slow and unhurried, and the traditional clicks of our language were long and dramatic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her condition, the trek, the language barrier, being separated from her...husband.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He thinks about roots, about first and second languages. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He realized: If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now surely, since Africa harbors 1,500 languages today, it is big enough to have harbored more than four ancestral languages thousands of years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Skills: listening, speaking, writing, story telling, explaining, teaching, using humor, understanding the syntax and meaning of words, remembering information, convincing someone of their point of view, analyzing language usage. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The spoken language luxuriated in rolled r’s and Z’s. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Finally, Suitcase marched over and bellowed at us in English, a language in which he was not expert: “You talk too much, but you work too few!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first her questions were legitimate enough: Arithmetic, spelling, languages, geography, and the sort of purposeful confusion—about ringing numbers and underlining words—in which some psychologists place particular store. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In military language, grandchildren, a “non-com” is a noncommissioned officer, anyone above the rank of a private, but no higher than a sergeant. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Learning a new language made me really excited about learning more. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The squirrel answers in her own language and keeps tugging at the knob on the cupboard door. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

While Sumerian and Mesoamerican languages bear no special relation to each other among the world’s languages, both raised similar basic issues in reducing them to writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The language she speaks is lost to them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English language has a long and storied history. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Details of language distributions provide valuable clues to the route of this hypothesized Austronesian expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got an accent, like Spanish is his first language. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe he got it where he learned that language he lapsed into. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“They don’t even speak our language. How can they provide for my patients?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The different ways language becomes metaphorical, the different ways it performs, are given names. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Anything that belonged to the Navajo way was bad, and our Navajo language was the worst. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just because Hitler speaks German doesn’t mean that the language is corrupt. It’s the most important scientific language in the world. What are you looking at me like that for?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Translating many words and sentences, I also write about the Arabic language. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

On it there’s a microphone, a complicated-looking remote, and a thick book that has Song Menu written on the cover in three languages. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

No speak English, she says to the child who is singing in the language that sounds like tin. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was particularly tricky at Booker because the hallways were so crowded and loud—slamming lockers, high-pitched laughter, voices shouting in different languages. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

During one ten-month period she gave 123 concerts in fifteen different countries, performing a repertoire that included over two hundred songs and arias in German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, and other languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She taught me some of them and told me what the words mean, because they're in a language called Hindi. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s a bit much to quiz them on languages, Quinzy,” Hoover added. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

What are the rules of this European musical language? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And precision of language was one of the most important tasks of small children. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jaime comforted her by speaking to her in the same secret language he reserved for animals and for the smallest children in the hospital, until she gradually relaxed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to learn languages when the sounds rhyme. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Each begins its life as a rather abstract scientific concept, but grows to invade multiple human discourses—thereby transforming culture, society, politics, and language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I shall teach him my native language and tell him of the beauties of my homeland. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked her what her dad did, she said, “He’s a college professor. He teaches the dead languages.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Programming, the installation of software, getting computers to speak properly to one another, all require very particular languages, protocols, and conventions—in sharp contrast to the emotional, visceral, manipulative drama of the political system. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that I’d taken the test of English as a foreign language. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and father, two brothers, and a sister as dear to me as my own self—there is no language for my loss. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I listened for the ancient language of the world as Mama Killa, Moon Mother, grew larger in the sky night by night, but I had yet to hear the voice of Beyond right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was her body that needed to learn this new language, not her mind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Math is still my favorite class, and language arts is still my least favorite. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If we were to come across the artists of the Stadel Cave, we could learn their language and they ours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you come to speak my language? Did you serve on Ravka’s northern border?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The limits were not set by their language but by their priorities, by their sense of what was negotiable and what was not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But they all use the same musical "language" and follow basically the same rules. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Against Baby Kochamma’s better judgment, it was he who took them, along with Lenin, for all-night performances at the temple, and sat up with them till dawn, explaining the language and gesture of kathakali. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He growled something at me in Jackboot language. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“What? Now you say, no, actually I’m studying Romance languages and ornithology.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My mom made sure English was the first language I spoke. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Frederick was a gifted translator who spoke eight or nine languages, but in America he had to take whatever job he could get. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“They also want me to be in a school where I can easily learn a second language. It’s worth being an outsider to get a good education.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The things I feel cannot be put into words, or if they can, the words are in no language anyone can understand. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was in the Eastern Mediterranean that African, Asian, and European civilizations, including the great cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia, met and cross-fertilized in a vigorous and heady confrontation of prejudices, languages, ideas and gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it could see through enchantments, maybe it could see through languages, too. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

What they understood was that I needed to speak a public language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mallory, whose auburn hair is curled in bouncing ringlets, smiles at me like I’m speaking a foreign language, and hands El a folder anyway. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Proceeding in the same way, we can compare modern Taiwanese, Philippine, Indonesian, and Polynesian languages to reconstruct a Proto-Austronesian language spoken in the distant past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The new language of science was above all a language which gave the new scientists tools for handling evidence, or, as it was called at the time, experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It turns out that there is also a big difference in how number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Luno grunted out a harsh chuckle and rasped something in a foreign language. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“If I could, I’d write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence. It’s with those words that the universal language is written.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then the language of eugenics and genetics had long become subsidiary to the more malevolent language of racial hatred. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Math first thing in the morning, then science and gym, lunch and health, and finally, reading, language arts, and social studies in Mr. Larson's room. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Many animals, including all ape and monkey species, have vocal languages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were men and women, children and elderly, of all colors and ethnicities, whispering in a dozen languages stories of heartache and spite, a perfect ghostly mirror to the living of the city. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In this city where Rani doesn't speak the language, I'm the most useful member of our two-person-plus-one-bird team. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Thus, while Austronesian languages in China may not have survived the onslaught of Chinese dynasties, some of their sister and cousin languages did. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No native speaker of the English language could diagram this sentence. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the party he exhibited his unusual masculinity on the bar, completely covered with tattoos of words in several languages intertwined in blue and red. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And Tim had never said anything about what language she spoke or didn’t speak, because why would he care? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The raw brittle language of the streets makes a hell of a lot more sense to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know anything about the different cultures, languages, or histories, and honestly, it felt like they didn’t want to know. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We already had an ample supply of graphophones, because of the ones Dad had acquired for the language records. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never much liked the way Mama and Daddy seemed to have secret conversations right over her head, always talking past her in a language of their own. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He could hardly manage English, much less the poetic language of a king. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Many times the primary author does not have enough insider knowledge of the language, and has to rely on someone with that knowledge to help with song lyrics and other cultural attributes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

His teachers tried to beat the Klallam language out of him. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ultimate ancestors of all modern Polynesian populations shared essentially the same culture, language, technology, and set of domesticated plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I try the joke out on my tongue like it’s a new language. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It's a quality my father admires so much, he's able to ignore the foul language completely. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. Say, speaking of hieroglyphics, where might I find a book about picture languages?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Now I was in a storm of French, drenched really, and only equipped to catch drops of the language—“who,” “euros,” “you,” “to the right.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She says it like English is not my first language. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They talked about food words in those thousand-year-old languages and licked their lips over the ancients’ words for “oranges” and “deep-fried.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And again my mom asked my brother not to use such language in front of me, which was strange again because I think I’m the only person in my family who’s ever been high. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Punctuation, together with other graphical indicators such as italics, capitalization, and spacing, developed over the history of printed language to do two things. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We found a few others who were like us, different in language and custom, and a part of our loneliness was gone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This language reflected the revolution that science was undergoing, but it also made that revolution possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The students there were trilingual, speaking Arabic, Armenian, and English, three languages with completely different alphabets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Memo: Remind the sprites to watch their language. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Many tourists come to this part of Switzerland, but most of the tourists are stubborn and only want to speak their own language, very loudly. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Beowulf was down on his haunches, scratching Reginald gently between the ears and murmuring to him in some mysterious doggie language. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Bell, a vastly more virulent form of “genetic cleansing” would engulf that continent like a violent contagion, morphing the language of genes and inheritance into its most potent and macabre form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“If language has any meaning,” Stanton wrote, “we have in these texts a plain declaration of the existence of the feminine element in the Godhead, equal in power and glory with the masculine.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her face had a little color in it now, but, although he spoke three fairy languages, he understood not a word of what she finally said in her faint tinkling voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No. I think you’re right. 1 don’t think he knows the language.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting from kindergarten, they learned of the black man’s glorious history and from the third grade they studied the black man’s original language, Arabic. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, our language was not spoken the same everywhere by every group of Navajos. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a simple reason for my having taken to perusing such works; it was an extremely efficient way to maintain and develop one's command of the English language. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most kids in the township spoke only their home language, but I learned several languages because I grew up in a house where there was no option but to learn them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They were Maryknoll nuns, members of that missionary order whose special task is to go into a country, with knowledge of its language, and convert its people to the Catholic faith. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear them and am forced to say no: It is not possible for a child—any child—ever to use his family’s language in school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together the words form another language he longs to know. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was not the language of angels, but the curse of demons. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, assign a narrator, speaking or acting parts, and along with your instruments and sound effects, you have a complete performance that incorporates music composition and creativity along with language arts and theater. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Each newcomer changed the balance of the team, as players connected over shared languages or cultures. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some writers think that simple, clear, straightforward language isn’t flashy enough, so they toss in complexities. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its title was in gold leaf, in a language Leo couldn’t understand, but nothing else about the book seemed shiny. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Indigenous peoples of the North American continent spoke hundreds of languages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Without telling my story in plain language, I didn’t know how to ask the next bit, so I just followed the pencil where it led. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But if we look at England in 1658, the year Cromwell dies, facts are now newly established in the language, thanks not to the friends of Hobbes, but to Pascal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This part of the brain, called Wernicke’s area, is the part that “hears” and decodes language. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I suggested to him that I should be allowed to go in as an interpreter just as the hearing impaired have an interpreter doing sign language. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know in my heart, Tiago whispered, the language we like to speak is music and poetry and even cold, sweet piraguas on hot, hot summer days. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He dropped the language of chivalry, falling into the simple tongue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, I’m sure I couldn’t. I can read most languages, but I have trouble speaking anything but English. Can’t get my tongue to do what it’s supposed to.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

So I held on to my sacred language while learning the words and the ways of the whites. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A striking example from the history of writing is the origin of the syllabary devised in Arkansas around 1820 by a Cherokee Indian named Sequoyah, for writing the Cherokee language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol is one, grabbing, walking a little, repeating words in two languages. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he was excited at his intuitive understanding of the camel driver’s comment: maybe he was also learning the universal language that deals with the past and the present of all people. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s using his own cultural language, speaking as a subordinate would to a superior. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain, who could speak seven languages, recognized nothing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two spoke in their own language, as meaningless to her as drums or birdsong. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Their only response was still the shaking of heads, but an old man said something in their local language, and the boy with polio nodded and gestured for me to follow him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for my baggage, we witnessed a touching family reunion scene as part of which several cherubic little children romped and played, exclaiming in another language. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child of a barely known glove maker from the Midlands—“born of parents not distinguished from their neighbors”—could grow up to be the most prominent writer of the English language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Southeast, and the Arawak languages of the West Indies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My packet of worksheets, my impending academic doom, the hospital, Dr. Katz, even Mom, it’s not that they feel far away; it’s that they feel like a foreign language, an alien planet. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We work at this all our lives, and collectively we give it life, but we do not exert the least control over language, not as individuals or committees or academies or governments. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the case of discovery we have a straightforward paradigm case—the case from which the whole language derives. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He tapped his breast solemnly when he reached the words that always moved him, even though spoken in the secret tongue of a dead language: Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black-skinned tribes who were either Christian or practiced traditional religions and who spoke dozens of languages dominated the southern half. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted a birthday cake with her family, and she wanted Layla to sing “Happy Birthday” in French like she’d done every year since she started learning the language in eighth grade. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Not only ancient history—the mythical age of the brothers’ feud—but my own history one second ago, has vanished utterly, dropped out of existence. in Time. is an allusion of language. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I could not find the words in our eye language to tell him how my throat tightened at the thought of five days without Papa s voice, without his footsteps on the stairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So, in places like Australia and the Americas, not only do most of the people speak European languages, much of their music also sounds Western. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It strikes me then how she does not have much command over the language to complain about her hunger. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, have you studied any foreign languages yet? French? Italian? German?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She gave me an A on the written report, saying she liked my tongue-in-cheek approach to criticism, but warned me to clean up the language and watch my run-on sentences. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hitting things was a language the satyr knew well. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The men spoke Russian in front of her and clearly had no idea that she understood the language. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge— she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, or expectation of any kind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby loved languages and, in addition to being fluent in Spanish, was becoming adept at Russian and German. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Joan put a comforting arm around Maddie’s shoulders and advised her in a whisper to pay no attention to the pilot’s language. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Asked if he had been brushing up on his German, Ebright shot back, “I don’t expect to have to have any knowledge of the language.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The angel touched the man’s shoulder, and they were both projected far into the future. They were in an immense setting, surrounded by thousands of people speaking a strange language. “The man wept with happiness. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even some of President Obama’s most ardent supporters in Hollywood and New York’s creative corridors would not be able to read it without stumbling over language that is couched in politics, if not outright hypocrisy. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But his mom looked like they were speaking in a different language and she didn’t know what was happening. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next part of the research was a little more confusing to me because of the technical language. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I learn languages easily, so it didn't take me long to feel comfortable conversing in English. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They did not follow the sounds of earth-sea-sky and the Chinese language. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she spoke a quick prayer in the language of her Saints and began the steep climb down the outer wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“All they can speak is one stupid language.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Wyrdmarks stared up at her, their intricate curves and angles speaking a language she couldn’t yet begin to decipher. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Stanton recognized their participation as a feminist act, even if the language in the resolutions was tamer than she had wanted. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“She spoke four languages. You wouldn’t think to look at her. Little slip of a China girl.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Soon he began to hear hashed words, and he strained to catch the language. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Lori heard about a scholarship sponsored by a literary society for the student who created the best work of art inspired by one of the geniuses of the English language. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

You will see that he did the contrary of those things that must be done in order to hold one’s dominion in a region with heterogeneous customs, languages, and institutions. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

This traditional Japanese form of storytelling will draw students in while they make connections with music, the visual arts, language arts, history, culture, and character education. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Starkey sought to discover this and other lost secrets by careful study of the alchemical texts, which were written, as he acknowledged, in a deliberately impenetrable language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In the morning, his mother would venture downstairs to lecture him on the evils of selfishness and bad language. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

So the story of the girl who had defeated their tormentor was passed from one to another in languages that had gone generations without once uttering the word human. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, how did you learn our language?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“They’re worthless to your son. Tribal schools don’t use these books, for they are written in French, German, Arabic, Hindu and Chinese, languages which I, too, can’t read.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on, “I work mainly in London. You speak English?” he added in that language. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rehearsing whimpers and groveling positions as she climbed to her lookout, she got ready to tell Amaroq how help­ less she was in his own language. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke kindly, but in a language she had never heard before. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

On my way to language arts, I passed the school newspaper office, which gave me a new idea. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly, I ask, “How did you know the language of those natives?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

King Azaz had ordered a special supply of delicious words in all flavors and, for those who liked exotic foods, in all languages, too. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without language, the energy that is encoiled, springlike, inside information can only be used once. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The italicized language in the description of the referenced text exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I could understand most of what he was saying: he was cursing Edward in terrible language, profanity I will not write down here. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Don’t put the u ahead of the a, as in language. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a lot of words back then, except for the ones in the language I had made up, that no one else knew. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

First, he criticized her use of racist language. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Although she was proud that her command of the language was growing, it bothered Amari that she still spoke it so poorly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what are you good at, exactly, anyway? I mean, I know you're good at everything, but what are you so good at besides languages?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The Fellini-esque quartet spoke in an arcane language and made references to people with feudal titles who lived centuries ago. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were suddenly surrounded by unfamiliar sights, sounds, and languages. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, we shouted, “Please, we are harmless and just passing by,” in every possible one of the eighteen local languages that each of us knew. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had never thought of them in terms of a language used by God to indicate what he should do. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to ignore the raised eyebrows when I say I want my child to learn to speak Farsi despite my loosening grasp on the language. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A sharp young guy with a thin mustache—he was just twenty-two—Lafayette spoke their language, and as a pioneering Freedom Rider, who had been arrested several times, he was a celebrity. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latter gesture had become irrelevant because of the new language of the second resolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her white fur beside the ram's wool—two textures, two colors, both called white in our inadequate language. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was in a new language, called English, he said. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of pronouns that distinguished between male and female, Sasha’s language had pronouns that distinguished between animate and inanimate objects. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I did not know the animal language until now,” said the robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tema is an impressive sounding language, especially if you have a good dramatic baritone, which I did. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was too direct, and to keep up with her he had to pay careful attention to his language. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the fact that I did speak African languages immediately endeared me to the black kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His language was Cantonese, but whenever he told the story he spoke in high and beautiful Mandarin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So he dropped it, and has stuck with Spanish, which he concedes is “the language of busboys” in New York. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The tribesmen watched the boy from a distance, talking among themselves in a language that the boy couldn’t understand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a beautiful, poetic language, it sounded harsh as Klingon when they fought, especially when Mamou joined in and turned it into a three-way argument. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"I can't help it if I want to hear some words in a beautiful language." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His young face usually projected kindness, approach- ability, but now held heavy weight he had no language to express. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They sent people to America to learn not only how to speak English fluently, but also to learn our American Indian languages. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had to guard against the easy, semiobscene language that Negroes use among themselves, for coming from a white man it is insulting. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never said the word, in any language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Subcultures spawn languages, and there is decorum to how those languages are used. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I am in a world of book lovers and people eager to rise to the music of language and ideas. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were more friendly with Elves than the other Hobbits were, and had more skill in language and song than in handicrafts; and of old they preferred hunting to tilling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Voices harmonizing and bellowing in a language I’ve never heard before. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no political unity whatsoever among villages of the Foré language group. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn't speak Spanish, just an Indian language. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is Integrative: Provides excellent opportunities for integration as a natural entry or pivot point to other subject areas such as social studies, history, literature, language, and all of the arts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But more intensely than for most barrio children—because I did not live in a barrio—Spanish seemed to me the language of home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he couldn’t speak Portuguese, the former president’s gregarious nature broke through the language barrier. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I was able to deduce from their body language that they had made up and this made me pleased because it showed how much better I was getting at reading body language. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is the world of the thing they study: the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, the development of language in children, the Taiping Rebellion in China. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

These rules are a sort of grammar for the language of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“We,” the princess said, struggling for the word in the common language, “were talking with the weather.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They worked through it by talking, speaking, shouting and screaming, in every language on earth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did those peoples nevertheless end up with the same or very similar languages and cultures? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They worked up some language, and C. J. carried the letter by hand to the office of General Philip Russell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whispers lay beneath the breeze, speaking to her in forgotten languages. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Outside of that, my mother picked up different languages here and there. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter understood some of the language of these mountain people, but it would never do to let them how how much. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It took even longer before I understood their language of calls and gestures and the way they live in their society. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those languages are famously unique in the whole world in their use of clicks as consonants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When you need support, some guy singing in a foreign language is a lousy substitute. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Where he first went to a real school and learned to read and write and speak his new home language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

To him, I knew all the languages of English the way he did those of Spanish. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Ten years,” says the driver, in the same language. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Or how maps are a second language for me? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Soon the jovial mood dissipated and the languages fell silent. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From then until the 19th century, Russia proceeded to swallow up dozens of non-Slavic peoples, many of which retain their original language and cultural identity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a game with us: the older generation speaking one language, the kids responding in another. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Galileo, Kepler believed that the book of nature is written in the language of geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But I thought Isabella, Julia, and I spoke the same language. At least we used to.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps at an adjacent frequency or a faster timing, there would be another message, which would turn out to be a primer, an introduction to the language of interstellar discourse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are born knowing how to use language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard enough Spanish from Mexican workers that following the language wasn’t so hard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Sahagun’s reconstruction, the Franciscans speak first, their interpreters struggling to make European concepts clear in Nahuatl verse, the language of high discourse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Another fragmented language group is the Austroasiatic family, whose most widely spoken languages are Vietnamese and Cambodian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But they had been gone so long at Thurmond that I had stopped trying to imagine what it must have been like for them to speak the mysterious language of electricity. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Without a common language to communicate with anyone, his loneliness on the cattle ranch became greater than it had been in the labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, and this was worst of all, the teachers would read excerpts from writeups about the process charts in the bathroom, the language records, and the decisions of the Family Council. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantomime was often required to get over language barriers. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They invented a sign language for hands and feet. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Petra struggled with this language and had to look up the words “credulity’’ and “premises.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I came at the request of my father, the King of Eyllwe, to learn your language and customs so I might better serve Eyllwe and my people.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When accessorizing your language, remember that a little jewelry goes a long way. discreet silence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how to properly teach you my language,” Celaena lied. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He and his joking partner would hunt the wilderness for months, calling to the wolves, speaking their language to ask where the game was. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a whole new language, spoken through the skin, and to Lazlo’s amazement he already knew it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So decorum is, literally, speaking your audience’s language. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Grandma had started speaking only in Spanish, her first language, as she became weaker, so I didn’t understand a lot of what she was saying. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The police don’t know the identity of the girl right away because no one can read the ID card in her purse; they send a copy of it to a language department at Columbia. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry pressed the Extendable Ear deeper into his own: Over the murmur of the river he could make out more voices, but they were not speaking English or any human language he had ever heard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even when she was very angry, Mami rarely swore or used vulgar language. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mama had made sure she could read and write in Zamani—even if her penmanship was barely legible—but she couldn’t speak any other languages. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Hence it may have been Africa that gave birth to the languages spoken by the authors of the Old and New Testaments and the Koran, the moral pillars of Western civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Much of this chapter has been concerned with the language of science, as much of the book will be, but the book’s argument is also and equally about what Leonardo called ‘the test of experience’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know half of the words in my own language. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Todd13 scowled and his face actually turned red—a sign that he hadn’t bothered to turn off his account’s real-time emotion feature, which made your avatar mirror your facial expressions and body language. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was the language of survival, a myth that helped us cope with the human sacrifice that finds us no matter our manhood. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

That is not one of my languages anymore. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I didn't understand their language, but I understood the tone: a stupid survival plot, as if they actually had a say in their fate. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My teacher said I had a knack for writing but that my language was oddly formal and stilted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Nothing like it exists in the English language. It’s Portuguese. Saudade. Do you know that one?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The years passed, and Maeve became as connected to the neighborhood as I was, even as newcomers from other lands added their music and food and language to our little part of the world. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

First are cases in which the word for a particular crop is very similar in all those southern Nigerian languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see my father’s mouth pronouncing it with reverence, like he did for everything that had a touch of the old about it, the words from our language; like a prayer. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Since music and language development have a high correlation in terms of development, it is helpful to know what activities children are developmentally ready for musically, and when are they ready for them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The very language used by people in Tremonton betrayed just how intense that pressure was. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The give-and-take of language is something like warfare. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing wrong with that, but it should not be used as an excuse to destroy the stability of language. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He says that’s nice language to be using in front of the children and she says never mind the language, food on the table is what she wants, not suffering Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We have waited until she had some command of our language. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is Los Angeles; I’m used to seeing signs in public places with instructions in multiple languages. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She read a couple of languages and knew all the quality writers in the business. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Understanding doesn't mean that you can suddenly speak the language. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked “No. 2: light breeze.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They spoke a different language from ours, and at first we used hand signs to communicate, though after a while we picked up some of their language. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kat said later that this was body language for how Salim thought his mother was crazy. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to have the secret sister language with Matilde, and Santiago is supposed to be the outsider. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Pippin’s surprise he found that much of the talk was intelligible; many of the Orcs were using ordinary language. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It was hard to understand a language that only used twenty-six symbols, the letters of their alphabet. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he can tell us what languages they’re written in, and whether you can use them in later classes.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke mostly French and some Swahili, not the language of my people, Kinyamulenge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You must name every landmark in Bhutan in Dzong-kha, the national language.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He had to understand that I, too, knew her language. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned a cold, hard eye on her classmates and teachers, saw their weaknesses and silliness, and used her strong language skills to lash out. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Such is the benefit of language: By finding public words to describe one’s feelings, one can describe oneself to oneself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many yes/no answers to the various biological questions are written in the language of life? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found one: I decided I would no longer, in the presence of my friends, speak Venda, my father’s tribal language. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew from school that in some cities they spoke other languages, or didn’t turn pretty until they were eighteen, and other weird stuff like that. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They speak in their special language, half in broken English, half in their own Chinese dialect. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled off his glove, put his hand against the door, muttered something in a language older than English. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Includes educational children’s songs, holiday songs, favorites, and songs for teaching English as a second language. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the entire book is written in runes from some language that I suspect is either dead or never actually existed. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Again the language was dazzling and full of rhetorical tricks. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The languages they spoke, in rank of proficiency. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the horrors of the American Negro’s life there has been almost no language. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m still...getting used to the customs and languages of the east.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He reminded me that as a practicing psychiatrist and neurosurgeon he had very little time for languages. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thus art, like language, requires that we learn the style and outlook of a country, period, and artist if we are to understand it properly. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was being painted not simply as an outsider but as fully “other,” so foreign that even my language couldn’t be recognized. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We ended up with only one class together, language arts. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a whole other person inside him I couldn’t see because I didn’t speak his language. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

If you like to learn different languages, you may find some of these programs by searching online, using “language revitalization” plus “Indigenous” to do your search. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you wait for me after language arts?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Blue meant “battle” in the language of the time, and at Drossen Tor there was the largest and most terrible battle of this large and terrible war. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wolf cub ate its meat raw, but it spoke as a man would speak, in the language of men and the gods, and it was proud. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Meng and I do not speak Vietnamese, so spend our days watching people, and trying to learn the language. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could nature be governed by ratios and proportions when something as simple as a square can confound the language of ratios? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And I would say, “The kind of twelve-year-old that speaks three languages.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A year ago I was in Maine, a teacher of languages. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth started moving like he was talking in a secret language that only dogs could hear. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In some families the children worked out a sign language, but here the children spoke English, which their parents didn’t seem to hear. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure if I learn to speak Mama's language, I'll have a little bit more of her to hold on to. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure which option was less awkward, but before she could decide, Father Drozdov took a deep breath and began speaking a language Anya couldn’t understand. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

People at the tables around them speak the language that Frau Elena whispered to him as a child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Turner didn’t know a single word of the language. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Many of the headlines and articles contained dramatic language and exaggeration. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And I’ll read them in English and Spanish because it’s for both languages. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was not speaking the tongue spoken by those who rule men, the kings, conquerors, dictators, generals; in that language there was no answer to his question. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the people who first domesticated wet-country crops of West Africa spoke languages ancestral to the modern Niger-Congo languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him down, and we passed pilgrims by the thousands, babbling languages, everything but English. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make this type of linguistic reasoning clear, let me give you a familiar example: the geographic origins of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Your language," the mother scolds absently, and then, as if the words were an endearment, she coos them at her granddaughter, "your language." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Because, as I’ve told you, I was bad at languages, I only picked up a smattering. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There are many languages spoken by things,” the boy said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them are concerned with the development of a new language for thinking about, talking about and writing about science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As a foreigner, I guessed he sympathized with Sovoy’s difficulty adjusting to the language and culture of the Commonwealth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

However, even where Native Americans do survive, there has been extensive replacement of their culture and languages with those of the Old World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, the language, to say nothing of all this solid globe, will survive such lapses. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Inside, men stood in groups arranged by language. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“To answer stones and bad language with a random volley of .30-caliber bullets was not imaginable in America,” he later reflected. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I gathered this had to do with fufu, the food staple, not yet knowing Kikongo is a language that is not exactly spoken but sung. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The language created vibrations in the atmosphere around them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I hate this language. It changes too often!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I don't know why he has to use this gutter language, but I swallow any scolding words. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

More dangerously, it was felt by many that the exuberance—the sheer play of language—could overcome the less thrilling but more valuable quality of judgment. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I also learned later that he always did the job he was about to do with us new students because he had convinced himself that he understood our language. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a nation it fell, when a million of its healthiest citizens were sold into slavery, but its language and traditions did not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The classes were the same: language and communications; commerce and industry; science and technology; civil procedures and government. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the school called and told her that I got kicked out of language arts class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the same token, the modern Korean language may be a poor model for the ancient Yayoi language of Korean immigrants in 400 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a mat in front of the door which said Welcome in twelve different languages. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

High John spoke again in that language of dancing slaves and hidden meanings, and the giant black crow cawed and flapped into the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the middle was an inscription carved in letters even older than Greek, a language of magic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She told Dad once that she sounded young and naive, but I loved the way her paragraphs sounded—the way the botany-speak blended with her excitement and became a secret language with magic words. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Spanish, he decided, would be the easiest language of all to learn. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he, Bull Meecham, would turn his boys southeastward, interpret the exact language of latitude and longitude, then drive toward the unarmed fleet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

For Jesse—careful to avoid language that suggested emotion, never angry but “irritated,” never hurt but “disappointed”—this came close to an expression of grief. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her that the birds and animals all had languages and if you listened and watched them you could learn about their enemies, where their food lay and when big storms were coming. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate closed a little, and the servant refused to speak in the old language. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Ben felt, dead languages could sway God more easily than a language soiled by everyday use. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were men and women like them, with straight hair and dark skin, who spoke the same language and complained of the same pains. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But what was truly unnerving was that the people around her were not speaking any language she’d ever heard before. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When Ivan mumbled the words on the page as he followed along with his finger, Anya realized he wasn’t speaking Russian, or Hebrew, or any language she had ever heard of. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The docks had been packed with sailors from all over the world, lugging crates and barrels and shouting out in languages he’d never heard before. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

And then I was given detention for using vulgar language in class. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The news is reporting nothing today except for footage and reels about the games, each station frantically trying to outdo the next, channels in every language and country. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When my mother was angry she’d fall back on her home language. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This autobiography, moreover, is a book about language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Osh sometimes spoke in a language I didn’t know, his voice like music, especially when he prayed, but also when he painted his pictures of the islands and the sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Right before we went onstage. It’s been happening a lot lately, not just with him, and I didn’t know what to do. But I guess I just...figured out how to speak his language.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And, Mr. Hobert,” the principal says to Stephen, “it sounds like you’ve been harassing younger students at this school. You will serve detention and community service for one week. We do not tolerate hateful language.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Amari thought briefly of her father, who loved meeting men of other tribes and learning their languages. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The announcements go off, and Mrs. Fisher starts talking about our language arts project, but I don’t stop reading. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

When the moon was full I would talk in my sleep, speaking a strange language no one could understand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No strong language in this house if you please, young woman,” said Aunt Letty. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“No. But it soothes him. You must talk to him a lot. And you must learn his language.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Khoisan area of southern Africa is surprisingly small for a people so distinct in anatomy and language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We both laugh because we understand this secret language. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Soon they were cracking messages in many languages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Using “separate but equal” language that previewed the Court's infamous decision in Plessy v. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And he knew again that she was not saying everything she meant; in a kind of secret language she was telling him today something that he must remember and understand tomorrow. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lancelot dropped unconsciously into the language of chivalry also. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second theory agrees that our unique language evolved as a means of sharing information about the world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, gerunds with unmarked subjects were the historically earlier form, have long been used by the language’s best writers, and are perfectly idiomatic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I struggled to free myself from the strangers’ grips, snarling words I didn’t know, in a language I had never learned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what a difference in language meant then. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know a word. I’m very stupid about studying anything, can’t bear French, it’s such a slippery, silly sort of language,” was the brusque reply. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian Greene’s explanation of the multiverse in chapter 2 shows how a classic stylist can explain an esoteric idea in plain language without patronizing his audience. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The whole Austronesian language family consists of 959 languages, divided among four subfamilies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s familiar, the language they grew up with and met each other in. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Because many of the subjects were taught in English, and I had had a head start in the language through my connection with the Smiths, I quickly became one of the better students in school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted him to have a European experience and sharpen his use of foreign languages, which she kept insisting was so vital for his education. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He plays the instrument of language as Casals plays a cello. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But well before then, from my first day of school, I was a student of language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I’m a mathematical whiz, and I’m writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I’m gone. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before I start chanting at them in a language they don’t understand, I owe them something important—in plain English. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Since those are the oldest West African crops, all modern southern Nigerian languages inherited the same original set of words for them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I... As it turns out, the topic was “Should foreign languages be taught in middle school?” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope it will speak truth to you as well I have always believed in the power of language. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a skip and a leap she told him in wolf language how glad she was to see him. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was reading, with absorbed interest, a tiny, vellum-bound book written in some Near Eastern language. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I spoke both languages, and their voices sounded familiar. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed like they’d taken some other language and melded it with his own. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The codebook was like a dictionary, enabling the code clerk to translate a message into a secret language, comprehensible only to those with access to it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most languages of the Bismarck and Solomon islands are Austronesian: Papuan languages are spoken only in isolated pockets on a few islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and fought down the urge to throw things around the room and curse them in eight languages. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The universal attributes of language are genetically set; we do not learn them, or make them up as we go along. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in India always say Urdu is this sweet language of poetry, but to me, Urdu just sounds like my parents. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It’s filled with language that makes no sense to me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We might as well be speaking two different languages. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought to look at all the children, the many colors of them, listen to the shouting music of their mixed-up voice, inflections of a hundred home languages. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is easy to tweak academics for their earnestly opaque language, as I am doing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She assured Mia that yes, Shaker schools were excellent—Pearl could enroll in AP classes in every subject; there were science labs, a planetarium, five languages she could learn. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Everyone understands numbers. No matter what language you speak, they always mean the same thing. A seven is a seven anywhere in the world.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first and last periods of the day, science and language arts, do cross-curricular projects together. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman shakes her keys at us, shouting, “What disgusting, foul language! Where is your mother? I hope she washes your mouth out with soap!!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Humans and chimpanzees and meerkats and stingrays can read body language by instinct without having to learn it. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until that time I had never heard a foreign language spoken and I used to linger at the door of the corner grocery to hear the odd sounds that Jews made when they talked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be patient and keep trying to connect because it takes her a little longer to pick up on what you’re meaning to say...socially and body language and all that. Understand?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Another reason is that children’s songs are uniquely structured to make them easy to memorize while containing basic musical and cultural material; language and codes that we come to recognize in all of our songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For a major scholarship I needed a language. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I return to our cell, I tell Amma the news in our own language because I don't want everyone else knowing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She looked at me with incredulity, and then said in English, “What kind of lawyer and leader will you be who cannot speak the language of your own people?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my experience, the schools never called my parents to discuss me, probably because of the language barrier. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I hit with nothing but the language whispered between circuits and wire, the language that can bring people to their knees. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some 300 million others speak seven other languages as similar to Mandarin, and to each other, as Spanish is to Italian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls spoke their own creaky language, the floors crackled, motors hummed somewhere, the humming almost human. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said it was the best poetry ever written, and that even in French, the language of the arts, there was nothing to compare it to. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I love listening to Pa speak French to his colleagues and that’s why I like learning the language, even if the teacher is mean and I don’t like her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Frank stared at him as though he’d slipped into another language. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was one word— wintscha—which sounded like a word that means pretty in our language. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, who needs words when colors and lines conjure up their own language? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had such loud conversations around her even when they weren’t using their words, as if she couldn’t understand all the other kinds of languages that didn’t need sound. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Rex Lawson is a true Nigerian. He does not cleave to his Kalahari tribe; he sings in all our major languages. That’s original—and certainly reason enough to like him,” Miss Adebayo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Aware that German people were listening, the British Broadcasting Corporation, or the BBC, broadcast the news in the German language. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is like this that the birds have developed their language!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the very least I should show them that I can speak their language, so they don’t think I’m a complete moron who is almost thirteen and still in the second grade. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But if she tried to take on one more language, she thought, she might explode—like the almond trees with their billowy blossoms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The language was old-fashioned, and Emily noticed a spelling mistake right off the bat and then another a few sentences later, so she was having trouble getting into the story. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I hear him in the basement, expectorating back to a vuvv language soundtrack. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Well, if punctuation is the stitching of language, language comes apart, obviously, and all the buttons fall off. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“There are more over here, printed in dozens of languages!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists took that leap, for calculus is the language of nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was a language in which there seemed to be many words that he knew, though spoken more richly and strongly than in the Shire, yet he could not piece the words together. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My seventh-grade language arts teacher, Ms. Patterson, and the school librarian, Ms. Minerva, chatted excitedly by the model of the town. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the language was above me, and so I could only get a general impression of his argument. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Speech and writing differ in their mechanics, of course, and that is one reason children must struggle with writing: it takes practice to reproduce the sounds of language with a pencil or a keyboard. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Our job was to learn a new top-secret code based on the Navajo language. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only a portion of it. A large portion to be sure, but I don’t believe you can ever leam all of anything, let alone a language.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Western Europe has evolved or acquired about 40 languages just in the 6,000-8,000 years since the arrival of Indo-European languages, including languages as different as English, Finnish, and Russian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A single line of faint words, as if written with shadows, was scrawled upon the page in a language Minli had never seen. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They take care with appearance, language, and productive behaviors to create an image of success. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Heart of the moon, jewel of the sea, depending on which foreign language you’re using. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large thoughts into small, cryptic packets of language. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warrior—Eril-Fane, Thyon had called him—was amazed to find himself greeted in his own language, and immediately responded in kind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The French language had also made an impression. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Teach me your mindspeech,” I said, trying to speak easily and with no rancor, “your language that has no lies in it. Teach me that, and then ask me why I did what I’ve done.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The name I thought of was Rontu, which means in our language Fox Eyes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

That language was pioneered in English, where, for example, ‘experience’ and ‘experiment’ began to diverge in meaning during the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And since most hadn’t bothered to learn any of their host language on the journey, they all needed interpreters. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’d hear strangers on the radio and in the Mexican Catholic church across town speaking in Spanish, but I couldn’t really believe that Spanish was a public language, like English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As per his custom, the coach didn’t sugarcoat his words, perhaps because English was his second language. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She’d thought of a good one: Where the wet things are between art and science, encrypted in her and James’s secret language to make it a little more difficult. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t think he was using language at all. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I think maybe I am spouting a foreign language all the time these days, except that it is really my own language and I am just learning to speak it. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He never “watched” his language with her, which at first she took as evidence of his contempt because she had fallen so easily, and which later she took as evidence of his love. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But he did insist, in nonnegotiable language, that it was “a necessary evil.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The English language first picked up the apo-strophe in the 16th century. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

And he will be living in a different culture, speaking a new language. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, one of the pale-faced men with the death sticks came over to them, shouting in a language she did not understand. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that wonderful?” said Werfel in his perfect Elven.“Lady du Burgh and her whole family have learned the language of your people. They want you to feel absolutely at home here.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

If anything, rather than taking my language away from me, boarding school made me more determined never to forget it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Powers could only nod and point as they peppered him with questions in Russian, a language he did not understand at all. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We talked about making up a secret language. Want to do that now?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the Dinka language, the Atuot were called “the people of the lion.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and Santiago glance at each other out of the comer of their eyes, as though they have their own secret language. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the language of his thoughts—variation, mutation, survival, and selection—bore striking similarities to Darwin's. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the old days, her mother had told her, that half language was the voice of the plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Among Africa’s five groups of people—blacks, whites, Pygmies, Khoisan, and Indonesians—only the Pygmies lack any distinct languages: each band of Pygmies speaks the same language as the neighboring group of black farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of having to speak a foreign language all the time was overwhelming, even for girls like me who'd studied English for years. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

In about 1809 a Cherokee man named Sequoyah developed a written form of the Cherokee language. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

This already gives us a hint why speakers of Niger-Congo languages, stemming from north of the equator, were able to displace Africa’s equatorial Pygmies and subequatorial Khoisan people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

While couching their views in the honeyed language of Southern progressivism, the men who ruled Durham were as opposed to integration as their less cultured counterparts throughout the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This fellow, Benteret, he’s supposed to be fluent in a hundred languages, but now he’ll only say one word—over and over again.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The descriptive sort of linguist tends to observe change in the language, note it, analyse it and manage not to wake up screaming every night. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

My performance was above average in all subjects, but I excelled in languages and the sciences. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light was upon it for which his language had no name. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was always eager and excited to read for them, because it made me feel that I was really good at speaking the English language. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Yet now it was as clear as if she could speak the language herself. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Vocabulary is the key to success. How one speaks and presents one’s grasp of the English language is vitally important,” Mother said over and over again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The word for “a piece of sugar” in the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit is khanda, which, as it passed through Persian to Arabic to Europe, became candy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

What my sensations were, no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If the Japanese really are recent arrivals from Korea, you might expect the Japanese and Korean languages to be very similar to each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The English spoken language—the upper classes, anyway—must have fewer words than the Eskimo. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Make him speak the unknown tongue, the language of the future. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke in our language, but with an intonation which made it difficult for us to understand them. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It transpired that she understood and spoke French, so that the conversation took place in that language. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

To resist occupation, whether you’re a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The deal is the deal,” she said in Kerch, the language of trade, a tongue that belonged to neither of them. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The result was the creation of a distinct Gullah/Creole language and culture, which can be found in many children’s games. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Not only was the language still a problem but also the terminology and ideas he encountered were strange and bewildering to him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She spoke in that weird rumbling language, but this time I understood, somewhere in the back of my mind: I come to serve. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I spoke African languages and loved speaking them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She spoke her mind in the most crude language I’d ever heard, as if there were nothing shameful in it, as if calling a woman a puta were not embarrassing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the street the shouting is in a language we hardly know. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke to the Huntsman in their language, and her green eyes glanced quickly over the humans. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Therefore, to use the expressive, if not elegant, language of a schoolgirl, “He was as nervous as a witch and as cross as a bear”. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

That way, she felt, she could acquire the linguistic skills that would allow her to sing convincingly in languages other than English. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Nehemia might not be fully versed in their language, but she was smart enough to know the power of saying those two words. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

These kinds of explanations made me feel my mother and I inn, J u i LSUL*I\\ spoke two different languages, which we did. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, all language is. That’s what you used to tell me.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I feel like my ears are hearing another language or something. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She spoke in a garbled language that made Kendra think of angry men whispering. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At most, some of them merely adopted Austronesian languages, possibly in order to communicate with the long-distance traders who linked societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Being with the nuns was comforting, even though they couldn’t speak the same language. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It means, in the Yoruba language, “the son who has come home.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he uttered a decree that came like a thunderclap out of the storm of his language. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was fluent in English, German, Swahili, and her family’s local language, called Luo. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I have A’s in all the classes except math and language arts. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of scribbles and scrawls that were not of any language the magistrate knew of. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Here I am, so focused on learning to speak another language, and I barely use the words I already know. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Because that white teacher could not really understand our language, he did not realize that Biye’ in Navajo just means “son of.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could work miracles with “Soldiers of the Cross” in their own language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mind that could learn a language in a day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Yourself,” I say, and he looks at me like I’ve spouted something in a foreign language. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Last year in the language arts class Audrey and I were in together, our teacher campaigned against cliches so enthusiastically that Audrey started using them on purpose. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“How did you like those ear phones where you can tune in almost any old language at all?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end, when the lights have come on again, my brother returns to language. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if text-messaging shorthand as used on mobile phones were to shape the way language was written in books. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His ancestors were all Americans; the only language they spoke was English. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He said something in his language and put his hand out on the table again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still another reason to care about usage is to ratify a certain attitude to language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Some have links to pages about their language. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They talked loudly in the language his mother spoke to him, and one man sat with his back against the bank and sang songs until the wine was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And one of the critics wrote, “Her command of our language and our world of feeling was amazing,” adding that her “appearance in the Bachsaal caused a sensation.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

And the cursing: in New York City, summer is the season of bad language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth stared at him like he was speaking a foreign language. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But all those 500 Bantu languages are so similar to each other that they have been facetiously described as 500 dialects of a single language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But more than language, and more than money, and more than a house—he knew he needed an axe kick strong enough to cut down a bear. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a language I should’ve understood, being both a musician and Dad’s daughter, but I didn’t. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke English as if it was a second language. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Latin is the language of scholars and scientists. Then they can all read each other’s books. A very handy language, isn’t it?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A card hanging in the doorway announced that several languages were spoken in the shop. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn't scared at all, even though I didn't know the language nor have a clue what I would do. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s this new girl at the Bean Bar. She says French is the language of love. And that’s why she refuses to speak it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Crossing state lines one is aware of this change of language. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

People often tell me that academics have no choice but to write badly because the gatekeepers of journals and university presses insist on ponderous language as proof of one’s seriousness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was the color of the blush on peaches, and insect language whirred in the sweet meadow grass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m as smart as can be,” he remarked in twelve different languages, “and I’m as stupid as can be,” he admitted, putting both feet in one shoe. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

But these days, there was also a new culprit: the insecurity that plagued black people as they code-shifted through the unfamiliar language and customs of an integrated life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“We learn to read body language so we know when someone is lying or keeping something from us.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

To understand that language completely, science had to conquer the infinite zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And those are just the languages big enough to demand recognition; there are dozens more. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The creature growled low in its throat and changed its body language, small shifts that bled naked menace into the room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Skills: dancing, physical co-ordination, sports, hands on experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build, expressing emotions through the body. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She had learned the smart, snappy language of television commercials. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dynamic auditory processing, musical experience and language development. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“My lovely Amari,” he greeted her quietly in their language, as if hope still shone in their sky. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, my mom told my brother to not use such language in front of me, which was strange considering I am probably the only one in the family with a friend who is gay. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Big news?” she whispered to me in the secret language we made up in the fifth grade. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Hiding out in? What kind of language is that?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even had Florence been able to find a language unmistakable in which to convey her prophecies, Elizabeth could not have heeded her because Gabriel had become her strength. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

‘Moral certainty’ had been the language of theologians; in 1662 we find it being used by the first statisticians, Graunt and Petty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Those children represent over 80 languages spoken in the home, with English-speaking whites in the minority. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She did not look at him direcdy and never used coarse language around him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

No, it was not language; it was what there was before language. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said the same words because my new language wasn’t some punk baby babble. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They do not understand, consequendy, what so pleases the television audience listening to a movie star discuss his divorce with bogus private language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d forgotten all language long ago, or maybe had never known any. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know what the words are; they’re another language!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This doesn’t mean that children can’t learn music after the age of 9, of course, but that the language of musical enculturation is well under way by that age. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When Gogol is in the third grade, they send him to Bengali language and culture lessons every other Saturday, held in the home of one of their friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I always hear myself displacing the two languages, conflating them—maybe conflagrating them—for there’s so much rubbing and friction, a fire always threatens to blow up between the tongues. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went on to lecture me about 29 types of edible mushroom species, each species’ name in the Foré language, and where in the forest one should look for it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In that single exchange with that young man, I was speaking the personal language of my people. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, campfires dwindling, they laid out sleeping rolls for us and sang a lullaby in a lilting foreign language, and I felt pleasantly like a child. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

For example, the Indo-European language family, which includes English as well as French, Russian, Greek, and Hindi, comprises about 144 languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lacking words, categories, or language to describe what had happened, they called it, finally, a case of “fulminating liver failure.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still others were written in languages from the past and from other places. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

His body language made it clear that it wasn’t an open invitation. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Which was the same color as them, worshiped in their language and packaged in the boxes they made. Now that we take their god back to them, shouldn’t we at least repackage it?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mankind, by its nature, produced infantrymen and Bull approved that the grunts of the world could not enter into the language of aviators. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The viola's song is in a language no one knows; it reads from the alto clef, not the treble. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Because, when you know that language, it’s easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

These new rules have been justified by new rhetoric, new language, and a new social consensus, while producing many of the same results. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To him, everything had its own language—the language of breakfast, the language of business, the language of politics, and on and on. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, he had trouble speaking his native language. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

As though we could have fathomed the intricacies of the Nazi web: the reinvention of language, the animalization of human souls. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Seneca people gave him a name in their language to describe what he was doing: Conotocarious. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke in two languages from the region, Kirundi and Swahili. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They seemed to think that Spanish was the only language we could use, that Spanish alone permitted our close association. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance, the organization of a text really does seem like a tree, with passages of language embedded in still larger passages of language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

While I’m out in the public hallways, what private languages am I not hearing? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In recent years there have been attempts to make the language of the alien public language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

People from the conlang community sent letters in their invented languages using beautiful calligraphy. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She began to mutter to herself in the same strange language that Kaede had heard at night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if it was her lips or her hand, but something whispered to me in a language that I didn’t have any trouble understanding, it said, “Go ahead and cry, Bud, you’re home.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As the mathematicians turned their attention from observation to experiment, from astronomy to physics, they found they required a new set of intellectual tools, a new language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Not clear,” she wrote a few times, when she thought his language could be more lucid. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a quick flash of memory, Gabe thought of Mentor, his teacher, standing in front of a class of restless children, teaching them about language. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hearing a threat in his own language, Slats trots off. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching those shows, I realized that whenever black people were on screen speaking in African languages, they felt familiar to me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The spoken word is older than our species, and the instinct for language allows children to engage in articulate conversation years before they enter a schoolhouse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The question Vergil asks himself over and over again is: ‘Who invented…?’; and he runs through a seemingly endless chain of topics, such as language, music, metallurgy, geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

—The school’s only medium of instruction was Tsonga; therefore anyone speaking any other language had better leave before it was too late. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d stayed up late last night baking them, and he had heard her singing something in a language he didn’t recognize. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Though I hadn't quite learned a new language, as Julia was doing, I felt almost as though I had. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their peeling, faded gold letters spelled words in languages Harry couldn’t understand. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I think how hard it would be to move to a different country and have to learn another language. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But Italian was the language of Dante and of Petrarch. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Among dances, swimming, and tennis she soon found herself getting involved in the English language. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On the paper was a line of words in a language the king did not know. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

New information about Japanese genetics and language origins, accumulating since the book’s first publication, now encourages me to test how Japan fits into my overall framework. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her lilting accent never fails to capture the music of the language. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was a numbness in their crisis, which forced language into conversational levels. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell she’s getting older in the entries, her language becoming more refined as time separates her from the fringe where she once lived, her reactions becoming more moderate. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As with language, the system is governed by genes, and there are genetic differences between species and between inbred animals of the same species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Hispanic-American writer tells me, ‘I will never give up my family language; I would as soon give up my soul.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out to feel the language on my skin for the first time since Minerva had breathed her words over my forehead when she thought I was sleeping during her nightly check-ins. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“You have been selected for gleaning,” he said, speaking in Common, but with a pronounced accent that must have been Portuzonian, which was the primary language of Amazonia. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Like the nations of the Powhatan Confederacy, the Pequots and their diplomatic allies spoke closely related Algonquian languages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t use language like that,” Alex said automatically, and in spite of himself, he laughed. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Belatedly, it struck Sarai that he was speaking the language of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I knew English wasn’t their first language and had real doubts about how much they were even following what I said, but when I finished, they erupted into vigorous applause. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In truth, the fact that you were in the class likely meant you came from a difficult background, homes where parents fought or took drugs or beat their kids or maybe spoke a foreign language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other three families have fragmented distributions, being spoken by “islands” of people surrounded by a “sea” of speakers of Chinese and other language families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, the language of the school was Latin, in which Kepler became fluent. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stared at her like she was speaking a foreign language. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

For there is no end to that language. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

This new vocabulary was crucial to explaining the status of the new knowledge, and yet it is a language that we have come to take so completely for granted that its invention has become invisible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Once, last year, the language arts teacher assigned him a poem about this rough-and-tumble guy who couldn’t let people see the bluebird that lived in his heart. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

You cannot make out individual words in the mass, except that the recurrent phrase, “But look—” keeps bobbing above the surf of language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I move into my silence-is-power body language: feet apart, fists on hips, frown on face. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A little later in life we pick up some of the more exotic plurals—criteria, phenomena, hypotheses, and the like—that are the offspring of other languages. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been friends for years, yet lately it seemed that we didn’t speak the same language. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In this way, my pronunciation and ear for the English language improved. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t even occur to me to wonder what language we were speaking. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And this time he spoke in the old language. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her language skills have really improved this year. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was particularly tricky at Booker because the hallways were so crowded and loud—slamming lockers, high-pitched laughter, voices shouting in different languages. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He done taught me de maiden language all over. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t tolerate that language in my house.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was like switching from passively watching a film in a foreign language to actively debating in one’s mother tongue. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many words convey subtle shades of meaning, provide glimpses into the history of the language, conform to elegant principles of assembly, or enliven prose with distinctive imagery, sound, and rhythm. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knew twenty languages when he was only twenty-five. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than 100,000 Miao-speaking refugees from Vietnam have carried this language family to the United States, where they are better known under the alternative name of Hmong. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The language of the white skins was strange and fell heavily on her tongue, but she continued eagerly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, I shall argue that the new science would not have been possible without the construction of a new language with which to think, a language necessarily cobbled together out of available words and phrases. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Hello” wasn’t a valid command in BASIC, the only language the ancient computer understood. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When we wanted to get a point across, we shared it our own way—spoke in our own language. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, I’m in Ms. Saintima’s language arts class, trying to focus. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We’ve now seen, from Niger-Congo language distributions, that the blacks who did the engulfing were the Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

These legacies may include the Uto-Aztecan languages of Mesoamerica and the western United States, the Oto-Manguean languages of Mesoamerica, the Natchez-Muskogean languages of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each hamlet was involved in a kaleidoscopically changing pattern of war and shifting alliances with all neighboring hamlets, regardless of whether the neighbors were Foré or speakers of a different language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Drawn to words in any language, she took four years of German and five years of Latin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The queen took special notice of me and at one point addressed me directly, but she spoke in Sesotho, a language in which I knew few words. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the words so long that they started looking unfamiliar, like something written in an entirely different language. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hennie began speaking in lofty language, and at one point, asked the congregation to close its eyes and pray. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I rarely meet anyone who knows what the languages of Zambia are, much less who can read them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I speak twelve languages fluently,” said Scythe Curie, a bit of pride in her voice. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Use of language: It is necessary to speak softly at all times. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After we finished taking attendance, Miss Watson talked for a while about what we’d be learning this year in mathematics and language arts, and we had our first lessons in those subjects. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thought to have been written in 159 a.d., the twenty-one columns of glyphs were the first Olmec text long enough to permit linguists to decipher the language. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Shiva was my buddy, but he sounded funny: He spoke Kirundi, a language of Burundi, and I would often ask him to repeat things. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If we looked closely, we might see that the language was Greek. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They speak English like everybody else but they babble away to one another in a language they made up, Hung sup tea tea sup hung. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even Korea and Japan were heavily influenced by China, although their geographic isolation from it ensured that they did not lose their languages or physical and genetic distinctness, as did tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The husband was a small, timid man, sick with pneumonia caused by an unidentified microbe, and with only limited command of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Zambia? So did you speak Bembi, then, or one of the other Bantu languages?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In any language I can find on the Internet. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His embarrassed laugh was almost a giggle, “I sort of have a tendency to strong language.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Decorum can be seen as the ethos appeal working at the level of the language itself. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

English, Hindi and Chinese are all variants of Sapiens language. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the truly unique feature of our language is not its ability to transmit information about men and lions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But in your language it would be something like ‘It is written.’ The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew Jake would be useless helping her with her bilingual language skills. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Dad glanced at her in the rearview mirror, probably deciding whether or not to scold her for language, but then she leaned forward, toward the passenger seat, so her breath tickled my ear. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She realized that until she understood the subtle nuances of foreign words, and could pronounce them like a native, she could not hope to sing effectively in other languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Your language is thick with nonsense. I wonder how any of you understand each other. How is everything going? Going where?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But that kind of language was not, in my mind, ever uttered by anyone except those who were unique in their meanness. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When you’re giving evidence in court, you’re unlikely to address the judge with “yaknowwhamean?”; and conversely the language you use in court would cause your peer group back on the street to fall about laughing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

One was the enigmatic Voynich Manuscript, written in a language no one could read. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Instead, the pilots could participate in a culture and language with a very different legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The reconstructed language is full of words indicating a maritime economy, such as “outrigger canoe,” “sail,” “giant clam,” “octopus,” “fish trap,” and “sea turtle.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the language of the stars, and he spoke with them every night, waiting until they told him the time was right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As an adolescent, after his father’s death, Liszt and his mother moved to Paris, where he adopted French as his ‘first’ language. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then, using her body and voice, therobot spoke to the animals in their own language. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to miss you,” I say, speaking in that foreign language again, the one that I’m learning is my own.“You are so sweet,” Pam goes. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I pick up languages real fast,” he replied, missing the irony in her voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could almost understand them . . . not quite, not truly, but almost ... as if they were singing in a language he had once known and somehow forgotten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He says that I have a great skill at reading and understanding language, and he wanted me to write an essay about To Kill a Mockingbird. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were dubbed into African languages. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Lee replied, and they moved through half a dozen languages before finding one in which they could talk. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were taller and darker than the Men of Bree and were believed to have strange powers of sight and hearing, and to understand the languages of beasts and birds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Whether he knew the language or not, the insult was clear in her voice. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Of the African languages, Zulu has the largest number of native speakers, but we couldn’t keep that without also having Xhosa and Tswana and Ndebele. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Trees are what give language its power to communicate the links between ideas rather than just dumping the ideas in the reader’s lap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They listen, nod, answer questions in the same guttural language. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The Jomon language of Kyushu may instead have shared a common ancestor with the Austronesian language family, which includes Polynesian and Indonesian languages and the Aboriginal languages of Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d told her once, “You know, Amari, the drums are not just noise—they are language; they are the pattern of the rhythm of our lives.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this really such a difficult concept to grasp, Officer? Let me try to put this in language you can understand—she needs a potty, okay?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her language skills made her useful in political discussions. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Not a sad, tired Uhmma who cooked and cleaned and sometimes yelled, but a stranger who had a friend and a secret language all her own. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Some months earlier, I had begun a halting study of the French language. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The proliferation of many similar languages in the Philippines and Indonesia merely reflects the fact that the islands never underwent a political and cultural unification, as did China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A shorter woman, probably his mom, comes behind him and says something in their language. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s quite a language. Yiddish is a lot like it. Yiddish was originally Middle German. When the German Jews came into Poland, they brought it with them.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Learning language, understanding other people’s intentions based on their behavior, um . . He frowns. “And empathy.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at the faces in the sea of pink-skinned people who stood around pointing at the captives and jabbering in their language as each of the slaves was described. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t always understand the insults, but you can tell from people’s body language when they’re saying something crude. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A stranger might reasonably interpret my brother's language as a lack of respect and view my father's response as a form of shameful surrender. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Just to be back with people who spoke the good old American language and understood the principle of a flush toilet. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It irritated him when grownups resorted to student language like put down. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were his political and religious theories, his vigilant search for dark conspiracies, his joy in languages, his affection for Zita, and of course, his abiding commitment to chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It's the secret language they all understand. Do you see? It's the skeleton key that unlocks every door.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

R’hllor spoke to his chosen ones through blessed fire, in a language of ash and cinder and twisting flame that only a god could truly grasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

People who say this have no ear for language. impenetrable fog. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd hoped the language might come on its own, the way it comes to babies, but people don't talk to foreigners the way they talk to babies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In their autobiographies, they recounted great races in intimate detail, but falls and injuries were glossed over with the most perfunctory language. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it’s the hunger for coherence that drives the entire process of understanding language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“This is the four hundreds room, home of foreign languages. Here, HALEY, you can learn all about your American heritage.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

By sign language, he said he would return within three hours, then he left. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Snake language. You could have been saying anything — no wonder Justin panicked, you sounded like you were egging the snake on or something — it was creepy, you know —” Harry gaped at him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Jesper and the rest followed, and they stood in stunned silence, all language dissolved by what they’d witnessed, gazing out at the field of fallen bodies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They learned biology, African history, math, physics and a foreign language. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Science on the other hand is dispassionate and without bias, it is the only universal language. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Scripts written by Larry Evans were translated into several languages and rendered phonetically to make it easier for Bobby to read. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Except, he’d play the same notes over and over, like he was trying to learn a different language. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was a sterile, feedback-barren experience with no chance to read his opponent’s body language. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In my language, when a child is born, we don’t say “boy” or “girl,” but lashe, which means “male cow,” or ngache, which means “female cow.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told my mom I was using language. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Felicia learned her florid language on those nights. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That makes me remember something strange in your language. People are always asking me about the road to Tinue. Endlessly they say, ‘how is the road to Tinue?’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Yet another lure into a garden path comes from the statistical patterns of the English language, in which certain words are likely to precede or follow others. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Foreign languages throw me—I have a beginner’s grasp of a few of them, but I can’t really access a person’s memory fast enough to pretend to be fluent in any of them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

You know nothing of God or spirit or language. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Much to the chagrin of some of the servants and to the consternation of Emma’s sister Elizabeth, the children even used bad language such as “the devil take” or “I wish to God.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I made my point, feet on the gunnel, boat rolling, my single­note language blasting from the whistle, and Richard Parker moaning and gasping at the bottom of the boat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The passive voice is just one of the gadgets that the English language makes available to rearrange phrases while preserving their semantic roles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

If they did make land, she’d need a Fjerdan to help her survive, someone who knew the land, though clearly she knew the language. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Now, English...English is the language of the future. The language of industry. Wouldn’t you two agree?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Same word both language, like hemorrhoid. That one we learned yesterday because Pierre had the fire in his bottom. He has the Toorettes. And the hemorrhoid. But, is good boy.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I did so because I agree with historian Diane McWhorter that “to sanitize the language of segregation is to mute its destructive force.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I learned to use language like my mother did. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He feels better able to express himself in his adopted language. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You know how in languages like Spanish and French, you can pick out a word here or there because it sounds kind of like English? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I hated the sound of the Russian language. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If only she or Salvador knew the language, they would have an easier time. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But the language barrier didn't prevent her love of American television. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had learned some important things, like how to deal in crystal, and about the language without words . . . and about omens. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs to the second floor and went around behind the foreign language section to the reading room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I always assumed, on account of the flowery language, that Hamlet took place around 1400, since everything in England takes place in 1400. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

People in different states in India speak different languages, and I'm lucky because I know more than one. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Their job is to reflect the language people use at a particular time—the good, the bad, the indifferent. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some cases, he cannot even distinguish what language they are inscribed in, though each has “Le Cirque des Rêves” written carefully along the edge of the paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Painting is its own language, I wanted to tell him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His language was a patchwork of cultivated speech and blue-streak profanity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It brought together the old revolutionary rhetoric, even deploying some familiar Jeffersonian language, with all the oppositional energy of the Whig tradition, then hurled it at assumption as the new incarnation of foreign domination. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Having his own language stone would mean that he was sure to get an A-plus in that class! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He spoke in his own language, but Con recognized their names, and when the Queen’s eyes flicked over him, he shivered. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade, Miss Perry had insisted we all learn to compose proper letters in formal language. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Sapo, do you think the pope would be the pope if he didn’t know his hundred languages?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She murmurs to him occasionally in an unfamiliar language. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They interpreted my love for the English language, for poetry, for tennis, as a sign that I was trying to be white. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to lie down with those words and rise up speaking a new language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if I were suddenly back in my element, searching for the right words, hearing the music of language once again. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Voices call to her in ragged words stitched together from many languages, like dissonant scraps of quilt. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth century Galileo and Newton knew nothing of this language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It comes so naturally to us that it seems as if our language evolved for this very purpose. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggle to understand her, especially since she’s speaking math—a language I’m already having trouble with. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

This suggests that languages have tended to evolve along with the people who speak them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She brings her hand hesitantly to my face, her shy eyes speaking an unfamiliar language. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked around, eyes wide with confusion, muttering in a language I didn't understand. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At other times, two languages may come together, fuse, replicate, and give rise to nests of new tongues. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The language of genetic discrimination was easily parlayed into the language of racial extermination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell what he was feeling, because I couldn’t speak the language of his feelings. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you? What do you want?” he roared in English, since Will had spoken in that language. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Effortlessly, without giving it a moment’s thought, we are capable of changing our language, music, manners, morals, entertainment, even the way we dress, all around the earth in a year’s turning. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes from India and was raised there by his grandmother, who only speaks a language called Bengali. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria was noisy with kids laughing and talking sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes in a combination bouncing back and forth between languages. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Some of that language—hypotheses and theories—came from astronomy; some of it—facts, and later evidence—came from the law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Here he was in fifth grade, near the end of his very first language arts class with Mrs. Granger, and Nick could feel a homework assignment coming the way a farmer can feel a rainstorm. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing about Farsi is, it’s a very deep language: deeply specific, deeply poetic, deeply context-sensitive. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The new science knew no boundaries of language or nationality, at least not within western Europe, within the world of the printing press, gunpowder weaponry, the telescope and the pendulum clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was fluent in several European languages and acted as a kind of clearing house for scientific information, communicating by letter with scientists all over Europe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Miao-Yao speakers live in dozens of small enclaves, all surrounded by speakers of other language families and scattered over an area of half a million square miles, extending from South China to Thailand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Such viewing also helped increase his understanding of the language. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t answer questions correctly, and he mixes up languages. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Many different people means different languages,” she said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

For the next 35 years, Japanese occupation forces tried to eradicate Korean culture and to replace Korean with the Japanese language in schools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew how to bring it up, or the language to use. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

English is the international language and the language of money and of the media, so we had to keep that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Do you realize that there are only twelve rhymes to ‘rod’ in the entire language? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A time when her language and the color of her skin could mean trouble. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The way they’re looking at him and gritting their teeth, you don’t need to speak the language to know that they’re calling him gay in the worst way possible. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There's like five hundred different ways to say "thank you" in the Farsi language. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He credits to language what he should credit to family members. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A controversial minority view is that of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who groups all Native American languages other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into a single large family, termed Amerind, with about a dozen subfamilies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought what he did with language was part of his charm and charisma. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Battles had been fought nearby, and the wind reminded the boy that there was the language of omens, always ready to show him what his eyes had failed to observe. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside of the Korean Peninsula, there’s no place easier than greater Los Angeles for a Korean to float around Without learning another language. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Of course bonobos didn’t have language, couldn’t trap thoughts and keep them to use on others. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was not the language of Sassoon but the violence of war that attracted me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There must be a language that doesn’t depend on words, the boy thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the highest vantage point you can make out only the brain’s two big hemispheres, so I began with studies of split-brain patients and other discoveries that locate language in the left hemisphere. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They are every shape and color but they still share this talk, and this is the other tongue they have learned, this must be the special language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Instructors of Threes were in charge of the acquisition of correct language. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Others have darker skins, wear different clothing and speak unfamiliar languages. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike many of her classmates, she hadn’t gone to Japanese school before the war, which was why she couldn’t read and write the language. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Not in words, for it knows no language. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I wonder what language they speak. I hope they don’t lock me up if I can’t speak theirs.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For the clue, she looked up that old language Maddie had used for the cipher challenge—Ogham—and used it to write out directions to an imaginary bench in a park. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But in their schools and on the streets they all seemed to speak the same language and to have a number of things in common. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The point of this language of “intention” and “personal responsibility” is broad exoneration. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Gender, a grammatical term for “kind,” describes the ways some languages categorize nouns and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re lucky, though. I mean, now you speak two languages, right?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was like they were constantly speaking two different languages, each trying to convince the other in an alien lexicon. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Alex strides out after them, waving into the white glow of the spotlight, shouting a jumble of languages into the noise. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess,” Celia says, transcribing a line of symbols into her notebook. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Since I had grown up speaking mostly Swahili, one of the languages of Congo, I was impatient with this slow-sounding language of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mami hushes my rudeness again, but I can tell she is proud of my being confident in a language she finds so hard to learn. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

This railroad turned out to be the protocols I mentioned above—the language of the Internet and World Wide Web. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the Bantu schools, children were only taught in their home language. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He waved with his old arms and spake in the language of the Ibo. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Uhmma and Grill Woman spoke in a language of mixed and chopped Korean and Japanese, glued together with pieces of English. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

We’ve started running the stairs together on campus, and even though I haven’t known her as long as my other friends, I think she and I speak the same language too.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Oddly enough, one of the most easily overlooked disambiguating words in English is the most frequent word in the language: the lowly definite article the. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Other times he speaks such a language that I cannot follow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Comparisons of terms for plants in southern Nigerian languages of the Niger-Congo family show that the words fall into three groups. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“See if you don’t know as many languages when you’ve lived as long as I have.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Yet when language scholars try to debunk the spurious rules, the dichotomizing mindset imagines that they are trying to abolish all standards of good writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, we can reason conversely that modern areas with a high diversity of languages within a given language family lie closer to the early center of distribution of that language family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our language puts us at a disadvantage here. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The women were just as rough as the men, and I think they was the ones with the foulest language. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My language and memory started to come back, too. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But in scientific language, a word conveys more than an idea—a mechanism, a consequence, a prediction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

That event evidently took place too recently for the colonists to evolve dark skins, distinct language families, or genetic distinctiveness or diversity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would rather have the assembly during language arts or gym or lunch. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Arawak-speaking people appear to have moved in, jostling shoulders with people who spoke a Tupi-Guarani language. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In doing so, I’ve used the language of their times and backgrounds, including words such as colored. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I could learn how to teach our language to our children. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even more unexpectedly, clicks or Khoisan words also appear in two Afroasiatic languages spoken by blacks in Kenya, stranded still farther from present Khoisan peoples than are the Hadza and Sandawe peoples of Tanzania. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some messages were in German, others were in Spanish, and a smattering of them were in other languages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My last class of the day is language arts, with Mrs. Bridges. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Govinda had become a monk and thousands of monks were his brothers, wore the same gown, shared his beliefs and spoke his language. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I speak languages with more ease than I read or write them,” she explains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The song slammed on; various rappers took turns spitting sixteen bars in different languages. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It is a bastardization of our language,” she said, “which in Puerto Rico is Spanish.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members, that’s what Milton felt, seeing his father sunk in desk light, jutting out a moist underlip, scanning a dead language. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He evaluated the English language skills of all of the airline’s flight crews. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Are you certain? It’s not all that difficult for a Recruiter to learn one of our languages. He could have just started speaking it when he heard you use it first.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The smells were in every breath he drew, and smells are a tiger’s language. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The lettering on the front was in some Oriental language. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Indigenous languages differ from English or other European languages, both in their structure and in some of the sounds used. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Latin, the nuns taught us, was a universal language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crimes of others are a secret language among us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language,” he once said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was struck by the strangeness of that page: Dad could command this science, could decipher its language, decrypt its logic, could bend and twist and squeeze from it the truth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Very soon there were whistles, then soldiers with red eyes and prominent guns jostling my shoulders, grabbing their crotches and shouting at me in languages I didn’t understand. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A thing that astonished him about her was the coarseness of her language. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Korea was divided before the war. I’ve told you about when Korea was occupied by Japan and we almost lost our culture and our language.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Much of what I observe in Volpe’s theater program fits comfortably within the muscular language of education reform, with its emphasis on problem solving, high standards, “reaching for the top,” and accountability. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many have wondered how much of the Hungarian language Bobby mastered during his almost eight years in Budapest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next surprise in Figure 19.2 is a seeming detail on which I didn’t comment when I just told you that distinct peoples tend to have distinct languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’ll be just learning to talk now, all “Dada” and “Mama” and a secret language incomprehensible to anyone but a parent. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear her talking in her strange language and I would make up things to say to her and things for her to say to me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lydia. Come on with the language. At least try.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The secret language I used to speak with just Amma in jail is spoken everywhere here. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

People on both sides spoke the same language and could easily make believe they were Tories or Patriots. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in school he learned Arabic, the official language of the Sudanese government far away to the north. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose,” he said out loud, doubtfully, “they would have pronounced it Cuchullain in the North? You can’t tell with ancient languages.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Shakespeare’s language and the Bible’s language are one and the same. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My next memory is the dark street in Dubai at midnight, where we didn’t have a home, or know anybody, or speak the language. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m dressed as a mestizo, and I don’t speak their language and they have to notice how uncomfortable I feel in this dirty house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they shouted loud enough for me to hear — they spoke Swahili or some other language I didn’t recognize. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many people have strong opinions on the quality of language today. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Soup spoons, gravy boat, butter knives, salad forks and carving platter were additions to my vocabulary and in fact almost represented a new language. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter shrieked a high command in the language of the northern Tartars. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It is a program that seeks to permit non-English- speaking children, many from lower-class homes, to use their family language as the language of school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both the great men had slipped into the high language, suitable to the place and passion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to be the language that wishes him well, speaks his name, wakes him when his eyes need to be open. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man's eyes are focused on me, measuring the unspoken language that will either threaten him or put him at ease. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If either of us had joined this caravan based only on personal courage, but without understanding that language, this journey would have been much more difficult.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the writers I have in mind are the purists—also known as sticklers, pedants, peevers, snobs, snoots, nit- pickers, traditionalists, language police, usage nannies, grammar Nazis, and the Gotcha! The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the pigeon knows the combination but doesn’t know how to tell us,” said Bronwyn, “but it could tell Miss Peregrine, because both of them speak bird language, and then Miss Peregrine could tell us.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Shocked and hurt by such strong language, the little indoor mice fell silent. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every language arts teacher in the world enjoys making kids use the dictionary: “Check your spelling. Check that definition. Check those syllable breaks.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My specialties are languages and weights and measures. Cooks must know weights and measures." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

New words and phrases in any language sank deeply into Neel’s mind and stayed there. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

What I hope will become clear from this book is that one can usefully combine a descriptive and prescriptive approach to what is happening to this single aspect of the language. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Your brother was spoiled before he came here. And the language he uses! I hope you aren’t like that.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Of the approximately 40 New World nations, all now have an Indo-European language or creole as the official language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy again shouted at me, but I couldn’t understand his language. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Modern languages tell essentially the same story but add detail. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Did she want him to take her back where she came from, back to the place where all fairies had butterfly wings and people understood their language? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He envied them because they were different from him, and because, despite their poverty, their language and their culture seemed to offer a viable and dignified alternative. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worried he might go deaf, he began teaching himself sign language. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When you study the science of philology, you learn the laws governing how a consonant can lose its shape, but it keeps its identity from language to language.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A language has plenty of room for multiple meanings, including the ones that good writers hope to preserve. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He looked annoyed, and amazed that I didn’t know the language: “Well, learn it! It’s a fantastic book. He’ll play for a win against me, I’m sure, and I’m not playing for a draw.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time until they took to their personal language. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was good to have our language respected in this way. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Galileo, of course, all sorts of new languages have been invented with which to do science, including algebra, calculus and probability theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

If Levi-Strauss is right, myths are constructed by a universal logic that, like language itself, is as characteristic for human beings as nest- building is for birds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was their storyteller’s voice, both rough and pure, their friend's voice that repeated every fool phrase they threw at him in their language lessons. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still, surveying the page, I felt I knew no language. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We hid directly under the windows, pressed against the baseboard until the ghost, calling us in the ghost language so that we’d almost answer to stop its voice, gave up. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once heard, always remembered is the way with languages and me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later, Bobby would increase the degree of difficulty by reading chess books in multiple languages. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Show them your trick. Do your language thing.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Artemis opened the ancient languages file on his Power Translator and selected Egyptian. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Later, experts study the best speakers and writers in order to discover how they use language. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He slowly learns other languages, though he has difficulty speaking them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What language, he asked, looking pointedly into her eyes, did she love in? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So zombie nouns do have their place in the language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function. The closest we can come is by explaining samsara. Are you familiar with the concept?” asked Wish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. Nomadic peoples rarely have one language they all speak. I’m sure a lot of the Pecheneg bands nearer to the Kievan border speak Russian. Why?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He needed to see the formula not as math, which he hated, but as language, which he loved. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

As for the Ainu language, its relationships are thoroughly in doubt; it may not have any special relationship to Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I can read either language anyway.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It is harder to carry on a conversation in a dead language than you might think. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The articles included scientific language and specific details about the telescope’s unprecedented power. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I repeat, louder this time, articulating every syllable, like he doesn’t speak the language. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He turns toward me; the English language and I reappear in the conversation. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The ancestral language may derive from what is known as the Hopewell culture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For these writers, language is not a vehicle for clarity and grace but a way to signal their membership in a social clique. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We tell each other this, in fact, when we speak of living languages, and I think we mean something more than an abstract metaphor. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure I’m faster than anyone else in 3rd-period language arts, but my counting is extra work that doesn’t get me any extra credit. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I did not master the streets, because I could not read the body language quick enough. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

That was the beginning of a funny round-robin to see who could describe his or her experience in the most colorful language. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried talking to her in every language I knew. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

According to Chomsky, who has examined it as a biologist looks at live tissue, language “must simply be a biological property of the human mind.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Chinese can’t hear Americans at all; the language is too soft and western music unhearable. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like learning a new language, except there were nearly two hundred unfamiliar letters, and you had to invent your own words a lot of the time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He hollowed something in their language and everybody began to pipe down just a hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the debit side, the labor pool was of a deeply alien culture, worshipping unfamiliar gods, speaking a language few Greeks understood. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s awful. All those math classes I signed up for...well, I don’t have the foggiest idea what’s going on. The professor’s talking in the lecture hall, and it’s like he’s speaking another language.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my frustration, I began to curse him in the Tang peoples language, using some of Uncle’s more memorable curses. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though he pronounced perfectly words in a language he did not understand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know,” asked the Wart, thinking of the thrush, “why birds sing, or how? Is it a language?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like we were speaking in two different languages. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The same procedure can be applied to reconstruct Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, the ancestral language spoken by Austronesians after emigrating from Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The whispers in the dark, random and soft, in the sinuous Orgota language that made Karhidish sound like rocks rattled in a can, ceased little by little. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was a soft-spoken, politically sensitive, brilliant Zulu student, whose love for the English language probably equalled my own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru’s mother had grown up speaking Gujarati, a language from the state of Gujarat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The tallest woman said to us, “I loved your singing! What language was it?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Postmodernists often assume that because facts are expressed in language they are inherently contestable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A form of history which presents itself as acutely sensitive to the language of people in the past proceeds by dismissing out of hand what they said, over and over again, about themselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We didn’t even have the language to talk about mental illness in my culture. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They called the songs back and forth in their own language between a leader and the rest of the group. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he grew more confident, the Navajo language flowed from his mouth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For Henrietta, walking into Hopkins was like entering a foreign country where she didn’t speak the language. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They told her it was the language everyone spoke in Kerala. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expanded quickly from the little neighborhood business, the street- front store, for he had mastered enough language to deal with non-Korean suppliers and distributors in other cities and Europe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, his English was not of the best; and I, in faith, could not speak any word of the language of Oyo. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I asked, looking at my parents to try to understand the coded language they were speaking. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But one of those subfamilies, termed Malayo-Polynesian, comprises 945 of those 959 languages and covers almost the entire geographic range of the Austronesian family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ringleaders of this school are Descriptivists: they describe how language actually is used rather than prescribing how it ought to be used. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her name was Ms. Berman, but on the first day of school she had instructed the class that this year they were going to be detectives, looking for the “hidden messages” in language. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“A lot of people come to this country alone, Malú, not knowing the language,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Now I have found a language even more cynical than my own: in Kilanga the word nzolo is used in three different ways, at least. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could little babies smaller than Ruth May speak this whole other language so perfectly? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Science—the research programme, the experimental method, the interlocking of pure science and new technology, the language of defeasible knowledge—was invented between 1571 and 1704. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to, because the presiding judge told me in bizarre language that I was to have my head cut off in a public square in the name of the French people. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But now, as the sun began to set, he was in a different country, a stranger in a strange land, where he couldn’t even speak the language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Free verse is what her language arts teacher called it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was unaccustomed to the Kabuli dialect of his Farsi, and to the underlying layer of Pashto accent, the language of his native Kandahar. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And the oral parts of the course, standing and speaking the language, completely eluded me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know where they came from. I don’t know what language they speak.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I call her name in her own language; I whistle three notes—low, high, low. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Spanish was so heavily salted with Zapotec, the language of Oaxaca’s biggest Indian group, that I could not make out a word of it; Ramirez Leyva had to translate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ruth speaks several languages and comes with us to translate. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It felt weird, like I was speaking a foreign language. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Before European settlement, the mainland United States was home to hundreds of Native American tribes and languages and came under control of a single government only within the last hundred years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

This she followed with a string of language that would have set fire to the sidewalk. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We felt hollow in places and at certain hours we didn’t have names for in our languages. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There is no word in classical Greek or Latin for a fact, and no way of translating the sentences above from the OED into these languages. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Once I learned public language, it would never again be easy for me to hear intimate family voices. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t understand her language, but they were quarreling.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even little children here seem to know more than us, just as easily as they speak their own language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there were seven fifth-grade teachers: two math, two science, two social studies, but only one language arts teacher. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s a new plot, and pretty well worked up—language good, and so on,” was Mr. Dashwood’s affable reply. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s something of a genius. He has a Punjabi mother and a Bengali father, and because he learns French and English at school he already speaks four languages. I think he skipped two grades.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I could see in their body language that my father wasn’t convinced and that Mama was as pleased as she could be. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In their language, the Klallam tribes are known as the Strong People. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They not only spoke Japanese exclusively, they spoke a dialect peculiar to Kyushu, where their families had come from in Japan, a rough, fisherman’s language, full of oaths and insults. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a year, he would have doubled his flock, and he would be able to do business with the Arabs, because he was now able to speak their strange language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if his memory loss had stolen a chunk of his language—it was disorienting. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Science is written in the language of mathematics, as Galileo realized. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

However, Greenberg recognized that all Niger-Congo languages of subequatorial Africa belong to a single language subgroup termed Bantu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Generose, who spoke Swahili, some French, and Kirundi—the language of Bujumbura and western Burundi—knew only a few words of English. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Learning basic finger spelling to enhance musical activities with pitch and using sign language to enhance a song performance is very helpful. Sign language is a beautiful way to communicate; all students will benefit.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The language of outside the house had seeped well inside — Cadillac, Pyrex, subway, Coney Island, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can we resolve this contradiction between Japan’s presumably ancient language and all that other evidence for recent origins? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The women chatter together in quick incomprehensible languages, they laugh, showing perfect, pure-white teeth. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the one extreme, Mandarin and its relatives, which constitute the Chinese subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed continuously from North to South China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The greater geographic fragmentation of the Americas compared with Eurasia is also reflected in distributions of languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was brought before the chief and asked if he knew us and if he had ever heard us speak parables in the white man’s language. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some inherited letters or signs may simply be dropped, when the sounds that those letters represent in the lending language do not exist in the borrowing language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo’s grasp of the spoken language was tenuous, but he managed to answer, in uncertain grammar, “I want to come with you. Please, let me be of service.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I am eager to answer all my pen pals’ questions about language. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most students took a foreign language they might actually be able to use someday, like Mandarin, or Hindi, or Spanish. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It was so—oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, this book was written in Gnommish, the fairy language, and would be of no use to any human. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You are very fortunate to know two languages. Not everybody has that gift.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He seems not to know that the Starling says nothing of the kind, but speaks exactly the same language as we do. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I’m learning a whole new language for the first time. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All his life and all his studies were aimed at finding the one true language of the universe. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I observed how some speakers used emotion and dramatic language, and tried to move the audience with such techniques, while other speakers were sober and even, and shunned emotion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It speeds up communication between the hemispheres and affects language and higher-order brain functioning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I saw that if I just kept speaking the language of our work the customers didn’t seem to see me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, only in more high-flown language, is what she’s written in the catalogue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Little did they know that Polish was my native language. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, speakers of ancestral Afroasiatic languages may have been involved in domesticating the crops native to Ethiopia, and they certainly introduced Fertile Crescent crops to North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He described his time with Lupa and her pack, learning their language of gestures and expressions, learning to survive and fight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was learning to write her name in Zhaganashimowin, the white man’s language, and she taught Omakayas the things she learned. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sea murmuring in a language that travels through stones, air, and sky. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Setting and spiking the ball were the same in any language. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Don't embarrass us, please, Sandi!" she said, and then laughed when Papi reminded her that Spanish was not a secret language in this place. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Francie, shaky enough regarding English grammar, spelling, and punctuation, didn’t stand a chance with the French language. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A little while later they came out smoking cigars, talking contentedly in the mellow lower register of the German language. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He thought reason, opinion and authority should all give ground before experience, but he lacked the language in which to express this simple idea. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I took this as encouragement to lie some more, to keep trying to talk this secret language. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I spoke French and English with my parents, but was still fluent in the language of my childhood friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rider looked behind her and said something to one of the others in a language she did not understand, then turned back to Kaede. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We are not sure. It is not the language of the Xi—or if it is, it is something more ancient than we can read. But you shall take it with you.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The generation of an RNA copy of a gene was termed transcription—referring to the rewriting of a word or sentence in a language close to the original. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to understand the language, and the feel of the street life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He spoke in a careful combination of languages that was understood by everyone present. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can state one of its core premises quite simply: a revolution in ideas requires a revolution in language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From his experience at the Interzonal and the Candidates tournament in 1958–59, both held in Yugoslavia, he’d grasped enough of the language to at least autograph his name in Serbo-Croat. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I told myself that I'd never really cared about learning the language. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They talk in a language I don't know, standing side by side against the far wall. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he was more aware of language differences than of color differences. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now Abby’s staring at my face like I’m a movie in another language. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“The Princess Bride. In various languages, one of them, fortunately, English.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All languages embody the obsessions of the people who speak them, and so Sasha’s language was meant to reflect the interests of a people whose world was dominated by growing seasons, grains, and harvests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the sidewalk cafés, European teenagers were hanging out, speaking a dozen different languages and enjoying the sunny afternoon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t have liked that though; she was suspicious of people who spoke a different language. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each group kept to itself, spoke its own language, and grew its own special crops. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alone, and we were alone, because no one else spoke the languages we spoke. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For the boys speak a jived-up transitional language full of country glamour, think transitional thoughts, though perhaps they dream the same old ancient dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each student’s curriculum was rounded off by the Afrikaans, English and vernacular languages. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you can’t go on for years together without developing a different kind of language, one that was all sly grins and quick glances. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They have that language that comes from shared history. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Like it? It is more sweet to me than I can tell. Say ‘thou’, also, and I shall say your language is almost as beautiful as mine.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The result is the typical opening of an academic paper: In recent years, an increasing number of psychologists and linguists have turned their attention to the problem of child language acquisition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Doctor Dolittle’s parrot, Polynesia, tells us that in order to learn animal language we must have “powers of observation.” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As his group departed, I noticed that he spoke fluent Creole, the local language, with his Haitian friends. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Calculus was the very language of nature, yet its very fabric was infused with zeros and infinities that threatened to destroy the new tool. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Essentially the same processes accounted for the replacement of Aboriginal Australian languages by English, and of subequatorial Africa’s original Pygmy and Khoisan languages by Bantu languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a shift in mental language, a surrendering of where I was from. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

These are the ones that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns, irate letters to the editor, and inventories of common errors in student papers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He said that I had been outmaneuvered and paralyzed by the government’s actions, and now in desperation I was resorting to revolutionary language. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course almost all the early scientists shared a common language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the eve of battle, he said—and he spoke with some authority—you want to hear your commander speaking to you in your own language. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

One did his bit with Montgomery in Africa and the other is over in Burma or some other bloody place, excuse the language. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Well, music. I thought I could teach kids who can’t afford lessons how to play piano. Because music is something that brings everyone together, and it’s a language everyone understands.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But the arguments and the very language were identical, except that Jackson used Christianity to justify enslavement of the Africans, while the African used Islam to justify enslavement of Christians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Thinking, as he always did, about precision of language, Jonas realized that it was a new depth of feelings that he was experiencing. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Sisters were skilled in all known languages, astronomy, the art of poisons, dance, metallurgy, martial arts, decoupage, and the finer points of assassinry. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I shared with my family a language that was startlingjy different from that used in the great city around us. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke together in soft voices, at first using the Common Speech, but after the manner of older days, and then changing to another language of their own. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They were master linguists and could understand any language. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As you’re walking, sound washes over you, the steady thrum of human activity, people talking in a dozen different languages, chatting, haggling, arguing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Science is thus a cross-cultural language which any culture can in principle learn to speak, and which any technologically sophisticated culture will already have learnt to speak. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Knowing our own language and culture could save the lives of Americans we had never met and help defeat enemies who wanted to destroy us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The language was simple and she was making quick work of it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And there were words: words in the language that the conductor couldn’t process, words the Cardinals couldn’t bear, words the wires couldn’t transfer. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The parents noticed that their children were talking less, and that rather than speaking to one another in the language of people, they were beginning to use grunts. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He spoke carefully, as if he wasn’t sure of the language. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hung up the phone, and speaking a language I didn’t know I knew, I ordered the hollow to stand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She winced, taking on his language only to convince him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He stepped closer, pulled Javi toward him, and they moved in unison, bumping and grinding, speaking a language of forgiveness with their hips and smiles. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I said it was unacceptable for Mr. de Klerk to speak to us in such language. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry toward language arts class, reading the names in the bricks as I go past the girls’ restroom. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Although the recipients may not know any languages of the Earth, we included greetings in sixty human tongues, as well as the hellos of the humpback whales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a striking case of French imposing itself upon English, and of the scientists determining for the first time the language of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Volpe obviously had innate talents that related to theater—an ear for language, a feel for pacing and for calibration of emotional pitch, an acute visual sense. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When we use wishful language to talk about the past, we sometimes make it more complicated than it needs to be. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Originally, of course, people as distinctive as the Pygmies, living in a place as distinctive as the equatorial African rain forest, were surely isolated enough to develop their own language family. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you call it, this world in your language?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, I found out that while I had set out to reeducate the demoness about dragons, she was educating me in the demonic language. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His appearance as well as his language was terrifying. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

This dreamer, this creator of imaginary languages and a whole world in which to speak it. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

BBC broadcast in German, Dutch, French and other languages at ten: The invasion has begun! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was almost a secret language, one that only the two of us understood. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He loved his language the way Minerva had loved us, with pride and an enthusiasm of old potential repurposed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It’s true that every writer must calibrate the degree of specialization in her language against her best guess of the audience’s familiarity with the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Abstraction, language, how we make decisions, organize our time, focus. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The second subsection reviews three issues: the problem of focusing on a description of professional activity rather than an exposition of subject matter, the overuse of apologetic language, and the disadvantages of excessive hedging. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Those languages eventually replaced all earlier western European languages except Basque. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Part of that wisdom is understanding what you were given—a city where gay bars are unremarkable, a soccer team on which half the players speak some other language. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He joined the Signal Intelligence Service early in the war and mastered the Japanese language in three months in order to join the fight to crack Japan's secret military communications. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Has it ever occurred to you,” he said, “that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If I run into other children and speak to them, I have to watch what I say and what language I use. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The revolution in language is indeed the best evidence that there really was a revolution in science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A degree in English language is not a prerequisite for caring about where a bracket is preferred to a dash, or a comma needs to be replaced by a semicolon. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

But out there on the page, the connections have to be signaled by the lexical and syntactic resources of the English language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Our language evolved as a way of gossiping. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his love of words, in a strange way, it was the language difference—English English versus American English—that started Branwell’s fascination with the au pair. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In each chapter questions of language are intertwined with direct engagements with nature on the one hand, and with broader conceptual and philosophical questions on the other. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Allah created the armies, and he also created the hawks. Allah taught me the language of the birds. Everything has been written by the same hand,” the boy said, remembering the camel driver’s words. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many languages do you speak now, Jade?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Slowly he opened his red mouth, “The . .. Gar ... bage ... Ghost,” he said, copying human language. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow Jesse Chee knew I had to hear our language just then, though it was a risk even to whisper it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Enough with the language,” she said, turning off the engine. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There’s no need to hide my genius in language arts class because I’m not a genius in language arts class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Possible reasons lie beyond the scope of this discussion, except to note that this in no way implies some deficiency in Egyptian genius or language. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In Farsi, he said, “Forgive me, Madame, but your father prefers the language of Ferdowsi.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Bull grunted, a monosyllable meaningless in any language, but an audible assent that he had heard and understood her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found Woodhull’s fiery language honest and invigorating. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Upon inquiry, I found that English was the least of his languages, preceded by his own tongue and the speech of the Mandingoes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Macon, please don’t use that language in front of the children.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gullah was a language of English mixed with different West African languages. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That’s stupid. How can there be a language of love? And Bridge, is she really a ‘girl’? Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I’d watch that type of language in front of a cop if I was you, baby,” Granny said, flinching internally at the “baby,” but carrying out orders anyway like a good boy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babulya yelled in the language she had brought with her from her homeland, those seaside southern mountains that Anya swore she would see someday. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Though he could not catch or understand any of the words — he supposed the language was Entish — Pippin found the sound very pleasant to listen to at first; but gradually his attention wavered. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But I would have delayed—for how long postponed?—having to learn the language of public society. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In South Africa back then, it wasn’t common to find a white person or a colored person who spoke African languages; during apartheid white people were always taught that those languages were beneath them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her work on language revitalization led Congress to pass the Native American Languages Preservation Act. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The diviner of shells shaved her head as everyone chanted in the language of the Yoruba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just a bunch of men singing and blabbing in the Congo language and fixing a roof, that’s all it was. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The italics used on this page indicate that the language from the referenced email is paraphrased, not directly quoted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After English became my primary language, I no longer knew what words to use in addressing my parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was: black students without exception hated the language. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not Mr. Heller or Mr. Frisk. I’m Mr. Oberman, and if you don’t pick those up and watch your language, I’m giving you another month.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had a loud voice with a slight accent, as many in Village had, the traces of their former languages lingering with them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Since Tal's body language was so bizarre, Fischer interpreted it as an attempt to annoy him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the laughter came more frequently, the whispering began to separate out into sentences spoken in a language she did not understand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m walking into the language arts wing, this football guy I hardly recognize almost runs directly into me coming down the stairs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I was too tired to care about words in any language. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Dressed in the right language this might have made a fantastic answer—something about the woman’s serenity standing in powerful counterpoint to the general realism of the piece. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the practice of speaking a rich, tonal language to my neighbors has softened his voice in my ear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to lie in a French crib and start from scratch, learning the language from the ground floor up. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had done that a few times by mistake, and once her tongue had swelled up so much she had to talk to Mo in sign language for two days. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

English, as the most common language in the country, was used in teaching mathematics, history, geography, physics, biology, religious instruction, woodworking and domestic science. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to tell me you’ve talked with her? Remarkable! The sparrow language, or ‘Sparra’ as it is called, is very difficult to comprehend.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The streets were filled with traders from all over Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique, all their different languages and songs mixing with the smell of sweating bodies, spices, fried fish, and roasted maize. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The friend answered in the same language, but as he walked back toward the group, he translated for the chief, and Nya could hear him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, as soon as all of the white men had stepped outside of the building, the black man switched to the Ashanti language, speaking quickly and softly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the signal she and James had agreed on when they made up their secret language earlier that day. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And I saw it in their brutal language and hard gaze, how they would cut you with their eyes and destroy you with their words for the sin of playing too much. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But the reason for precision of language was to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then in broken speech, for he was a stranger to our language, he commanded, “Bring Sumac Huanacauri to me!” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Both had been trained by him in the English language and evidently a good deal else, for Brother Fowles left some mystery in his wake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As your dæmon,” said Balthamos, “I shall translate for you. I have learned many human languages; I can certainly understand the one they speak in this country.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Like pride in your people, your cus­toms, your language. Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion lit­tered with garbage, and someone has to take out the garbage.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ali Shekari would chase it, and sometimes even speak to them in their languages. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Preschoolers make a number of assumptions about words and their meaning as they acquire language, one of the most important of which is what the psychologist Ellen Markman calls the principle of mutual exclusivity. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, professional linguists design writing systems for unwritten languages by the method of blueprint copying. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language—violence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We have to learn it like a foreign language and this takes time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around 1810, Sequoyah decided to go on to design a system for writing the Cherokee language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny person was hovering there on little feathered wings, like a hummingbird, and Taisin heard the creature speaking some kind of language she did not understand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This is the stuff of language, the stuff of the human mind. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

One day when Sapo and me were in the eighth grade, Tapia told us, “You speak two languages, you are worth two people.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Dagorath was a word in Sindarin, the Elvish language J. R. R. Tolkien had created for The Lord of the Rings. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was very hard because we were in Kenya so the exams were in Kiswahili, a third language I had to master beyond Dinka and English. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I got nervous and we started talking about the book we’re reading in language arts class. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Zero became the language of nature and the most important tool in mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Another day she played a cassette of people talking in her language — a farewell present, she told Eliot, that her family had made for her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

While inspecting the schools in his province, Fourier discovered an eleven-year-old boy whose remarkable intellect and flair for oriental languages had already earned him the admiring attention of scholars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We call Spanish a romance language, Kojo, because it, like Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian, originated from Latin, the language spoken in the western Roman Empire.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, he could understand it, sort of; but it sounded so different, it was almost another language. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The district once offered instruction in five foreign languages. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Besides, her English was still just classroom English, a foreign language. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to speak our sacred language here. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though most speak English as their mother tongue, there are some, newer fetched from their country, who spake two languages or three before ever they heard our British speech. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She figured that Charles and Andrew had probably missed something important in the foreign languages room because they’d spent too much time talking to “these awesome mannequins” that told them all about their “American heritage.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Together with “The Internet is ruining the language” and “People write gibberish on purpose,” this is the explanation I hear most often for the prevalence of bad writing today. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I had made the first total emotional commitment of my life when I read how the phonetic experts had given these tongueless people a language, newspapers, institutions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me that my sense of language is improving along with my sentence structure. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not to understand this is to misunderstand the public uses of schooling and to trivialize the nature of intimate life—a family’s ‘language.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Army was already using Comanches in Europe to send messages in their own language. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were in languages she didn’t know, like English. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might have been the language of the Xi, but Kaede could not make out the different words. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Here this little girl could read in two languages and I could barely read in one. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

As I walk into language arts, he takes one glance at me and says, “I’m going to guess you’re not in the mood to talk today?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“This language will be your protection outside the fort, and within it as well,” he says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Because language is evolving rapidly, and because different people have different preferences, always adopt the language individuals use about themselves, even if it differs from what’s here. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Conversely, we would have had a very hard time learning his language and understanding his way of thinking. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sunburned man in the cage yelled back, and soon the courtyard was filled with shouts and filthy language, the kinds of words my mother never wanted me to say or hear. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, chloroplasts are also separate creatures with their own genomes, speaking their own language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Individual languages age away and seem to die, but they leave progeny all over the place. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the SATs and English language examination. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their silence was the language of the earth. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, he could hear the other prisoners murmuring to one another in different languages. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Other said something in a language that Will did not know; his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Scoob read To Kill a Mockingbird in language arts last quarter. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

It is difficult to give precise definitions of the concept of “language” and the concept of “acquisition” and the concept of “children.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Since the Christians they met spoke unfamiliar languages and wore unfamiliar clothes, the Crusaders assumed they were some kind of Muslims. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

At present, they and I have a difficulty in understanding each other’s language. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

While other boys played in the street, Robert sat alone in his room studying languages, devouring books of literature and science, and filling notebooks with poetry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never do good in English and it’s my native language.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He did not know our sacred language well enough to do this. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continually emphasized to him the importance of knowing other languages, especially if he intended to play chess in foreign lands. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His laughter had come more easily as they’d traveled, as if he were becoming fluent in a new language. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But we do not face a language barrier. What need is there for an interpreter?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was one of those language teachers who rely heavily on mnemonics. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

To no one’s surprise, that reconstructed Proto-Austronesian language had words with meanings such as “two,” “bird,” “ear,” and “head louse”: of course, Proto-Austronesians could count to 2, knew of birds, and had ears and lice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another writer tells us that punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

If the student has an educational or sign language interpreter, work closely with the interpreter for optimal success. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I believe that my talent with a foreign language was the only quality I had that impressed Dolores. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face and body language did not seem to match her words. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Later on, the Wart discovered that there were only two qualifications in the language, Done and Not-Done—which applied to all questions of value. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved that about her and wished for the courage to express myself in the hard language she used. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“That's not how you teach someone a language,” I said, and rolled my eyes. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The talk somehow works in their favor, there’s a shield in the language, there’s no fair way for us to fight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, one might guess that they once had a more nearly continuous distribution, which became fragmented as speakers of other language families expanded or induced Miao-Yao speakers to abandon their tongues. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most such expansions appear to be attributable to the advantages that speakers of the ancestral language, belonging to food-producing societies, held over hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it stood for “E,” the most frequent letter in the English language. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was like we were speaking two totally different languages. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The music, the language, the way you kids wear your clothes. I think it’s a good thing that someone is willing to protect him from hooligans like you and your friends.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Although, this time, I had to agree with her colorful language. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’s sure he used to know quite a lot of words, in more than one language, in fact, but he can’t seem to recall any of them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As usual, the moment she spoke in the language of Olympus, I somehow understood it. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the years since Yali and I had that conversation, I have studied and written about other aspects of human evolution, history, and language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a child learns language, they undergo a very extensive form of enculturation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“We don’t use language like that around here!” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted to guide great vessels around the world, to speak a dozen languages, to know the people of every nation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I even wonder if we ever really had an asusu anya, a language of the eyes, or if I imagined it all. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The amount of information in human DNA, if written out in ordinary language, would occupy a hundred thick volumes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And we still weren’t allowed to neglect our language lessons. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s wife would usually put her hand on his arm and say something in their language to calm him down. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His own story was told in every language in the world. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They used our language, but with a different lilt, a slight change of cadence. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the language they inherited framed the genuine political differences and divisions in terms that only exacerbated their nonnegotiable character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As a guest of the Scandinavian peoples, she made it a point to learn their folk songs in the original languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Minerva. Minerva has the language and us poor guys are stuck with her so we learn.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Nico didn’t speak the language, but he remembered his childhood Italian well enough to glean the general meaning: We, the bones that are here, await yours. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As long as you’re just giving orders, anyway, which are more or less about the same in any language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she talked on the phone to friends from the English language school. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her body language made it pretty clear she didn’t want to talk. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

"And no way you could walk there. Plus, in Bengaluru, people speak another language." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Cool,” I said, and Mr. Black started singing a song in some weird language, which I guess was Philippinish. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

If God said in plain language, “I’m giving you a choice, forgive or die,” a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said that the poems happen to be written by the only great poet of the century. He said I should’ve bought a translation or something. Or learned the language, if you please.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A different teacher used sign language as she tried to communicate with Emily. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It is not just my story, but a story of our people and of the strength that we gain from holding on to our language, from being Dine’. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he spoke his native language, he sounded like an angry rockslide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He began to apply the basic principles of language acquisition to music learning, and called his method the mother-tongue approach. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He didn't realize that I am fluent in Spanish, as it was the language I learned after English. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mary directly understood about a quarter of what Atal was saying, but by questioning and guessing she found out the rest quite accurately; and her own command of the language was increasing all the time. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He spoke passionately, using simple and clear language, and told the people what they wanted to hear. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The new country and its language have helped to push the past a little further behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She spoke Afrikaans because it is useful to know the language of your oppressor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I used to leaf through her book, reading only the footnotes, trying to memorize all those big definitions, trying to understand her indecipherable language. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By speaking one word in our sacred language I had just proved to my teacher that I was as hopeless as the rest of my people. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black men and women who walked freely and laughed loudly, speaking in languages she did not know. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, all of Europe has just 4 language families—Indo-European, Finno-Ugric, Basque, and Turkic—with the great majority of Europeans speaking an Indo-European tongue. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How might you use music to “enhance” a science or language arts lesson? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

These writers are incurious about the logic and history of the English language and the ways in which it has been used by its exemplary stylists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It may as well have been in another language. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The study of language en' nobles the rowdiest beast.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her time with Tariq’s family always felt natural to Laila, effortless, uncomplicated by differences in tribe or language, or by the personal spites and grudges that infected the air at her own home. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Their eyes, language and customs belied the white skin and proved to their dark successors that since they didn’t have to be feared, neither did they have to be considered. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was even informed that my Xhosa was no longer pure and was now influenced by Zulu, one of the dominant languages in the Reef. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the “low fear” version, the language describing the risks of tetanus was toned down, and the photographs were omitted. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My, oh, my, Mrs. Trotter. I can tell how old I am when I can’t even understand the language of the young people about me,” said Mr. Randolph. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They took their hats off and made obeisance and many signs, which, however, I could not understand any more than I could their spoken language.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Once he got past the dense language, the books Jen had loaned him were full of revelations. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

You'd only learn the language if it was jammed down your throat—like everything else in his life. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Part of the effort to divide black people was to make sure we were separated not just physically but by language as well. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The class registered its approval with body language that was the equivalent of silent applause. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke to them for a little in their own language; I think he was telling them of a plan he had made in his old head long before. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She mouthed the word “sex” with a visible distaste as though it were part of a most bitter and unsavory language. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would have been so nice to have someone to talk to in my language.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke in Spanglish, a combination of English and Spanish in which we hopped from one language to the other depending on which word came first. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the daughters often strays away to handle bolts of fabric and talk with the merchants in their own language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some Indian fishermen, whose language they could not understand, told them with signs that they had not seen anyone pass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

They exchange glances with each other; one of them is about to refuse me—I can see it in his body language—so I lean in conspiratorially and lower my voice. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But Latin was also a dead language, a tongue foreign to most Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Their father and I desire them to face the highest of challenges. And Sonia wants to continue with advanced French. She's excellent with languages." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of standard English, everyone spoke Hawaiian Pidgin, a language mash-up created by Hawaiians and early Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and American immigrants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Subsequently she spoke in her own language, rapid and riotous to Eliot’s ears; it was clear that she was reading the contents of the letter, word by word. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was almost the language the cub understood. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Austronesian languages are spoken today as native languages over more than half of the globe’s span, from Madagascar to Easter Island. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, if one compares a given language as spoken by Pygmies with the same language as spoken by blacks, the Pygmy version seems to contain some unique words with distinctive sounds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Take this entry on noun plurals, from, of all books, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: Nouns derived from foreign languages form plurals in different ways. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Alphabets apparently arose only once in human history: among speakers of Semitic languages, in the area from modern Syria to the Sinai, during the second millennium B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They even argue about what language to speak: Vincent wants to speak French, but Jo and her brother are more comfortable with Dutch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Now I never had, as the reader knows, either given any formal promise or entered into any engagement; and this language was all much too hard and much too despotic for the occasion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And when Marian performed before predominantly white audiences in the big cities of the Northeast and Midwest, reviewers who praised her voice often commented that she did not handle foreign languages well. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Hello!” called the Martian in his own language. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And most native societies in what is now the United States and Canada did not have the written languages, monumental architecture, or wide-ranging aesthetic traditions of their neighbors to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Having used up her single French phrase, she speaks Kikongo unabashedly, as though there were no other language on earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s always telling us that having a real conversation is the best way to learn a foreign language. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

One might initially wonder how a linguist, studying only modern languages whose unwritten ancestral forms remain unknown, could ever figure out whether Austronesians living on Taiwan 6,000 years ago had pigs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke to us in a language which we could not understand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, what kind of person sits in front of his locker, with his eyes shut, barefoot, and mumbling in some foreign language? He was practically begging for it.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In particular, the most distinctive Bantu languages, and the non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages most closely related to Bantu languages, are packed into a tiny area of Cameroon and adjacent eastern Nigeria. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maddy ignores me, but a boy from language arts class—Micah, I think—smiles at me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The men who took her to one or another of those places had merged into one large personality: the same language of love, the same entertainments of love, the same cooling of love. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Stian. He's Norwegian, Ph.D. in dolphin language? Didn't I mention him in my last letter?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He stood facing the tumult, with legs apart, and answered them in the language of honour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most likely answer is the very thing that makes the debate possible: Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Together, the two crazy kids grow, have madcap escapades, and learn an important lesson about love. They learn to resist the feed. Rated PG-13. For language,” I whispered, “and mild sexual situations.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

When Catherine comes in, just before the bell for language arts class, I’m ready for her. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Even the small creatures in wood and field who could understand no language save their own knew what it meant. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Students of languages had long puzzled over the extraordinary variety and fragmentation of Indian languages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while Festus the figurehead creaked and squeaked through the speakers, reporting the autopilot status in that weird machine language that only Leo could understand. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When they came for me, I was rehearsing Bach's St. Matthew Passion, but even in German I understood nothing except the language of music. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s as if he’s covered with a made-up language. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians’ ears. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not that that was my rule, it just seemed like it was probably discussed somewhere in the training that you might wanna refrain from using foul language around patients. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sanskrit and Latin words could be traced back to mutations and variations in an ancient Indo-European language, and English and Flemish had arisen from a common root. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But after she talks to me for a while, she closes her eyes and moves her lips and murmurs things in a language I don’t understand. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

However tentatively, the results indicated that the various Algonkian languages in New England all date back to a common ancestor that appeared in the Northeast a few centuries before Christ. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Lots of kids at my new school know other languages. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Here again the English language is mathematically elegant and provides the writer with a neat group of symmetries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was rumored by many that Bibi conversed with herself in a fluent but totally incomprehensible language, and slept without dreams. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The historian has to mediate between the past and the present, finding a language which will convey to present readers the beliefs and convictions of people who thought quite differently. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I am staring at him, and his face morphs into abstract shapes, and I think, This is reality; everything is made of shapes; no one is human; language is shapes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But my dad had argued that he didn’t know the language of cars. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Others have suggested instead that a change in brain organization around that time, without a change in brain size, made modern language possible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The driver, who was screaming something in a language I didn’t understand, was hauled down to the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe: they secrete chemicals the way insects do, or perhaps the movements of their eyestalks is a form of language similar to the dance of a bee. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In intemperate language, he questioned whether the ANC was honorable enough to abide by any agreements it signed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from Bengali, he has never bothered to master another language. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What difference was there between them, except the language in which he prayed? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ekon had been correct, she couldn’t read the language the words were written in, but she recognized that this book was special. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The new language of Korean Air was English, and if you wanted to remain a pilot at the company, you had to be fluent in that language. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The different languages were never a problem for me: I had grown up speaking Swahili and knew it well. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Which is not easy for someone who speaks three languages, as I do. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From outside, the baby hears language and music, mostly low sound waves from bass instruments and loud noises. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

During World War One, our country had used other Indians, Cherokees and Chickasaws, to send messages in their own language to confuse the enemy. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted for us to stay in Queens, where all her friends were and she could speak her language in the street. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he heard about language arts class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Princess spoke to her in her own language, telling her to open the valises and help the gentlemen in their search. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Depression-era Europe, The Threepenny Opera clearly struck a chord: by the time Weill left Germany for the USA in 1933 it had been translated into eighteen languages and performed several thousand times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Johnson and his aides quickly finalized the language of what became known as the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

While those conclusions rest on archaeological evidence, there is also an independent method for dating the arrival of domestic plants and animals: by comparing the words for them in modern languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, his voice changing, he said, “I asked you where he was, Sergeant, I didn’t ask for you to practice your mastery of the English language.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each word is a code she must decipher, a foreign language, a streak of gunshot. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They needed an opportunity to step outside those roles when they sat in the cockpit, and language was the key to that transformation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A peek at the entries for these words in any dictionary will show that Macdonald was wrong about the inevitable degeneration of a language that is not policed by lexicographers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was an intuitive two-year-old soaking up language and behaviors from a crew of rowdy adolescents who were trying on adult attitudes and habits. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I felt that I was getting a better sense of the language from novels than from grammars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words are the cells of language, moving the great body, on legs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact they had simply stopped remarking on the holiday because they had absorbed it into their thoughts, into their language, into their lives. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t touched her with the bull hook since we discovered the language barrier. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

In natural language, a word is used to convey an idea. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She was drawn up and tense, which in her language said “people,” so I wasn’t surprised to hear a voice call from across the stream, “Hi, Daniel Boone. What are you doing?” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari did not know the language of her captors, but she could tell they cursed as nets were cast overboard for the escaped slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Cherokees gradually began to use this written form of their language. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Every lifeform on Earth has a different set of instructions, written out in essentially the same language. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The language of our rocket engineers became part of our everyday speech. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although Amari could not understand the language of the white men, she soon began to recognize words they repeated often, such as “slave” and “price.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I can’t read the language, the signs seem like art pieces with beautiful, mysterious forms. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was there no other sentence in the English language? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, she stopped him several times and begged him to repeat his statements in simpler language so that Gloria might understand. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

There was only the rise and fall of whispering in the language of the Xi, a kind of hypnotic music. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Linguists agree in grouping all but a few Eurasian languages into about a dozen language families, each consisting of up to several hundred related languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I guess they were unprepared for us to share the language. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She had grown up knowing all the bus stops and the side streets, understanding the cryptic codes of conductors and the body language of street hawkers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In job interviews where knowing more than one language moves your application to the top of the pile. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I only came from the other side of the state and it was like they talked some strange language out here. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When defectors cross into China, the first “foreigners” they encounter are usually ethnic Koreans who speak the same language, eat similar food, and share some of the same cultural values. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That is body language even I have learned to read. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the language divide, she probably has no idea what questions to ask me about my life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must compliment you, young man, on your grasp of the English language.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now, you might object that the experimenters stacked the deck by writing a passage about a concrete physical activity in vague and abstract language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We saw from the twin evidence of modern peoples and their languages that sub-Saharan Africa was not always a black continent, as we think of it today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the twins, who were having fun exploring the criminal side of language, Juanita had recently discovered the pocket-sized dictionary, and big words flew out of her mouth every day. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but shouldn’t you be moaning and groaning in some foreign language?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“A person should write for the love of language, not for financial gain. Your writing can be compared to a cake. The money is simply the icing.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was the constant background noise of motorbikes roaring in the near distance and the sound of voices communicating in a language I was desperately trying to learn but had yet to master. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But with my bit of Elfian and gestures and laughter, we cobbled together a language understood by all. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

What looks like a brute fact—the distance a body falls in a certain period of time—turns out to be in part dependent on language and institutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hsu had come to America from China, and English wasn’t her native language. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So crowded is our stock of figurative language that every profession—legal, corporate, fashion, artistic, literary, and so on—seems to have a collection all its own. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Xhosa are a proud and patrilineal people with an expressive and euphonious language and an abiding belief in the importance of laws, education, and courtesy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman with great gifts in math, music, and languages, Meyer had worked as a Navy code breaker since 1918, and in the early 1920s she was creating new codes for them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will never speak his sisters’ language, account for his movements like a cow with a dull bell. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked the editor of the dictionary how he and his colleagues decide what goes into it, he replied, “We pay attention to the way people use language.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

To acknowledge that the Japanese language is related to any other language seems to constitute a surrender of cultural identity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He lay silent, frowning at me as though I were speaking a foreign language. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Just as deceptive is the plain language of Greene’s explanation of the multiverse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The different representatives had all spoken their own languages—French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One last reason, I would guess, is that during individual sessions astrologers pick up on clues about clients’ personalities from their facial expressions, mannerisms, body language, etc. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The italicized language in the description of the referenced email exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had a little baby on his knee, who he was talking to, even though babies don’t understand language, obviously. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve given him math and language workbooks that he’s ignored, and when he returns, a month or two later, they praise him for keeping up with things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Plus, most of the names white people think are unusual actually have meanings in various African languages.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She raised her hand to the Cauldron-Born and called out in a strange, harsh language. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They are not so much components of language as components of reason, identifying the ways in which one idea can lead to another in our train of thought. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think anyone can talk to animals. Except to dolphins, maybe. Or sign language to chimps.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could also learn more about history so that I could understand things and help our children to understand by reminding them to never forget our language and our culture. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All existing Khoisan languages are confined to southern Africa, with two exceptions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their languages are of course much more numerous than the eight dominant Chinese languages of mainland China, but are no more diverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I learn little about language and intimacy listening to those social activists who propose using one’s family language in public life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a craft knife and ruler, he dissected the first page of the Book and reassembled it in the traditional Western languages order—left to right, parallel rows. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It begins to look, more and more disturbingly, as if the gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from all the rest of life. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z