Examples of using "Kielestä" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom likes French.
I like the Occitan language.
What do you think about the Japanese language?
- This word comes from Greek.
- That word is of Greek origin.
She really likes English.
One learns grammar from language, not language from grammar.
I don't like English.
I don't like French.
A daughter language descends from another language - for example, Hindi is a daughter language of Sanskrit.
Do you like French?
"Sauna" is one of the few widely used words that have been borrowed from Finnish.
Only a narrow-minded man can disavow his native language absorbed with his mother's milk.
We cannot know too much about the language we speak every day of our lives.
I don't like French.
"Ombudsman" is one of the widely used words that have been borrowed from Swedish.
Translating is not nearly as easy as many people might think.
A bilingual person can change from one language to another in the middle of a sentence, and this code-switching is a topic of study for linguists.
Indonesia is an enormous country which consists of more than 17,000 islands, numbering over 300 tribes and over 700 languages.
Many of the world's seven thousand or so languages are spoken only by handfuls of living people and are in danger of extinction.
In all probability, no language is completely free of borrowed words.
In the case of language, however, it is only the ability to talk and understand that we inherit genetically; the particular language or languages that we speak are passed on to us not by genetic transmission but by cultural transmission.
Under the Tatoeba guidelines, it is recommended that members only add sentences in their native language and/or translate from a language they can understand into their native language. The reason for this is that it is much easier to form natural-sounding sentences in one's native language. When we write in a language other than our native language, it is very easy to produce sentences that sound strange. Please make sure you only translate the sentence if you are sure you know what it means.