Languages [noun]

The child who has got languages from its governess, therefore, marks time—that is to say, wastes time in these subjects at school.

These additional languages can be acquired easily if they are learnt in the right way.

Few of us there are who would not gladly read and speak several more languages if we had the chance of doing so.

This widening grasp of languages is or was within the capacity of nearly everyone born into the world—given the facilities.

I should pay a capable secretary like you—knowing several languages and all that—say forty dollars a week.

Switzerland, though a small country, and not half of this habitable, speaks three different languages.

He was professor of oriental languages; his dissertations on various subjects of criticism and antiquity were highly esteemed.

He was the author of various publications, one of which, Sixteen Short Sermons, has been translated into 15 languages.

They spoke so many different languages that a Babel-like confusion resulted.

He had no books for his pupils, so that he wrote on separate leaves, in four different languages, the daily lesson for each.