Term Gallery logo

Meanings of foreign language in English

Russian
иностранный язык
Portuguese
língua estrangeira
Spanish
idioma extranjero
Catalan
llengua estrangera

Non-native language.

        иностранный язык
        Usage of foreign language in English
        1
        Stressors identified included problems with foreign language and familial matters at home.
        Pubmed
        2
        Fewer students every year learn a foreign language at our secondary schools.
        The Irish Times
        3
        The challenge was enormous: a foreign culture, and a very foreign language.
        Reuters
        4
        Eighty-seven countries submitted movies to be considered for best foreign language film.
        Radio NZ
        5
        Students cannot even take four full years of science or foreign language.
        Reuters
        6
        They weren't speaking a foreign language-justa very funky version of English.
        Ebony
        7
        I questioned Mrs. Leek about the foreign language she heard spoken clairvoyantly.
        Ghosts
        8
        From it we cull the following paragraph on the foreign language question:-
        Catholic Problems in Western Canada
        9
        The acquisition of any foreign language annihilates a considerable number of prejudices.
        Essays on Russian Novelists
        10
        Yasmine looked at him as if he was speaking a foreign language.
        Any way you want me
        11
        I teach English as a foreign language at one of the universities.
        Accidentally the sheikh's wife
        12
        The nigger stared like a man addressed unexpectedly in a foreign language.
        The Nigger Of The "Narcissus": A Tale Of The Forecastle
        13
        Chuck stared at her as if she'd spoken in a foreign language.
        Creature
        14
        It is intriguing despite being, for me, in an untranslated foreign language.
        The Guardian
        15
        No shouts in what Rachel suddenly processed had been a foreign language.
        A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
        16
        I was a pretender who made pretty sounds with a half- foreign language.
        The Irish Times
        This collocation consists of:
        Translations for foreign language
        Foreign language through the time
        Foreign language across language varieties
        Ireland
        Common
        South Africa
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common
        More variants