acquire a language
1language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… …
2Language acquisition — Linguistics …
3Language immersion — is a method of teaching a second language (also called L2, or the target language). Unlike a more traditional language course, where the target language is simply the subject material, language immersion uses the target language as a teaching… …
4Language development — is a process that starts early in human life, when a person begins to acquire language by learning it as it is spoken and by mimicry. Children s language development moves from simplicity to complexity. Infants start without language. Yet by four …
5Language arts — is the general academic subject area dealing with developing comprehension and capacity for use of written and oral language. The five strands of the Language arts are reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing (visual literacy), as… …
6Language attrition — is the loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language by individuals; it should be distinguished from language loss within a community (the latter process is referred to as language shift or language death). Language attrition… …
7Language Weaver — is a Los Angeles, California–based company that was founded in 2002 by the University of Southern California s Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu, to commercialize a statistical approach to automatic language translation and natural language… …
8language, philosophy of — Philosophical study of the nature and use of natural languages and the relations between language, language users, and the world. It encompasses the philosophical study of linguistic meaning (see semantics), the philosophical study of language… …
9acquire — 01. Personally, I ve never really [acquired] a taste for whiskey. 02. The artist [acquired] a lot of useful art supplies while shopping in the big city. 03. The [acquisition] of a number of original paintings by Vincent van Gogh was a major… …
10acquire */*/ — UK [əˈkwaɪə(r)] / US [əˈkwaɪr] verb [transitive] Word forms acquire : present tense I/you/we/they acquire he/she/it acquires present participle acquiring past tense acquired past participle acquired 1) formal to get something, for example by… …
