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Foreign language: A language which is associated with another country or culture and is rarely or never used in a speaker's own community; usually taught in classrooms or through self-study, for practical purposes such as travel or doing business, or for pleasure. [e]
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Parent topics
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e]
Subtopics
- Foreign language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Second language acquisition [r]: Process by which people learn a second language in addition to their native language(s), where the language to be learned is often referred to as the 'target language'. [e]
- Third language acquisition [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mother tongue [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bilingualism [r]: The state of knowing two languages, either in individuals or whole speech communities; a special case of multilingualism. [e]
- Polyglott [r]: A person able to communicate in multiple languages. [e]
- Spoken language [r]: An example of language produced using some of the articulatory organs, e.g. the mouth, vocal folds or lungs, or intended for production by these organs; alternatively, the entire act of communicating verbally - what people mean or intend, the words they use, their accent, intonation and so on. [e]
- Grammar (linguistics) [r]: The structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any language; alternatively, the system of language itself, i.e. the principles common to all languages. [e]
- Dialect [r]: Regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists. [e]
- Accent (linguistics) [r]: Pronunciation and intonation common to a popularly-recognised variety of a language, or a language itself. [e]
- Foreign accent syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description