Professor Morford says signers are like English learners whose first language uses a different alphabet.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

If you are in a country where English is not the first language,

如果你在一个英语不是第一语言的国家，

在外国说英语的方法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Most Jews in the first century would've used Greek as their first language,not Hebrew or even Aramaic.

主后第一世纪大多数犹太人都把希腊语当作第一语言,而不是希伯来语或阿拉米语。

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Of course,with signers,their first language has no written system at all, just hand gestures.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

it's like you know English as well as your first language.

看起来你对英语的了解就像你的母语一样了。

It's like 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

This year, the Center for Plain Language is holding its first contest for best and worst language use.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

My first language is actually Spanish. I'm from Puerto Rico.

我的第一语言其实是西班牙语。我来自波多黎各。

必须掌握两门语言 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

English language experts say Geoffrey Chaucer was the first important writer to use the English language.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

That's a term that first entered the English language sometime in the mid-nineteenth century, but of course the concept goes earlier.

这个词在19世纪中期,第一次出现在英语中，当然概念产生得早些。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Language expert Charles Earle Funk said the expression was first used almost seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

In the first passage, the statement about language by criticism, that sign and meaning can never coincide, is what is precisely taken for granted in the kind of language we call "literary."

在第一段，关于语言的主张，用批判的方式，认为符号和意思永远不能相矛盾，正是这个主张,被人们认为是理所当然的，对于我们所说的文学语言来说“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The first question has to do with our recent discussion of English language tests.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

Thomas Hobbes was the author of the first and, I believe, undoubtedly the greatest, work of political theory written in the English language.

托马斯·霍布斯是第一部，我相信，毫无疑问也是最伟大的一部，用英语写成的,政治学著作的作者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

MCC Director Irene Paxia grew up in Italy, and knows first-hand how language barriers can waste precious time in emergencies.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The first one is, whether this is a high-level or low-level language.

第一个是，不管这是一个高级或者是低级的语言。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

"We think the very first processes of language development are actually starting in the womb because they are overhearing their mother's speech."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

First of all, it suggests of course that he was giving language to something, making a specific image out of something, that didn't quite have that specific content in his experience as a child.

第一，这的确可以反映出,他是在描述东西，运用某种东西来描述一个形象，在他作为孩子的经历中,那东西没有特殊的意义。

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It was the first prime-time TV show to feature characters speaking in their native language with English subtitles.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

It turns out that if you start learning a language, a second language is where most of the work's been done, within the first few years of life you're fine.

如果你在出生的头几年里开始学习一门语言,非常努力地学习了第二门语言,那么你一切正常

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In a crisis,first responders know to look for the card on the refrigerator, to learn the victim's language and other important information.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The challenges that... First of all, you got to understand that learning a language takes time.

挑战就是，首先，你必须明白学习一门语言是件耗时间的事。

学第二外语的时候 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He was the first doctor to recognize the major role of that area in language.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

So, what I want to do is, I want to discuss the scientific notion of language, at first restricting myself to systems like English and Dutch and American sign language and Navajo and so on.

因此,我想做的是,我想来谈谈语言的科学定义,首先我会将自己限定在,诸如英语,荷兰语,美国手语,或迪瓦霍语等语言系统之下

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Restrepo,who has family ties to Colombia, also answered questions in Spanish from regional reporters, marking the first time in recent memory that a dual language press briefing was held at the White House.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

We'll first go over some basic facts about language.

我们将首先温习一些语言的基本事实

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选