language barrier

noun

: a difficulty for people communicating because they speak different languages

Examples of language barrier in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The language barrier, however, did not deter my daughter. TIME, 5 Mar. 2024 ProPublica had found that, due to a language barrier, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office wrongly concluded that the boy’s father, José María Rodríguez Uriarte, was operating a piece of farming equipment that killed 8-year-old Jefferson. Melissa Sanchez and Maryam Jameel, Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2024 In restaurants, servers would come over to coo at him and make conversation with us in the process, despite the language barrier. Emily Siner, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024 There will be a language barrier between the two cousins, but Yu is confident that Talania will understand how much his visit means. Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024 Her son and one of his migrant classmates have built a friendship despite their language barrier, bonding over soccer games. Liset Cruz, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2023 Between the torrential weather and language barrier, Dom, Cole and the Italians around them descend into a comical fiasco. Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024 That language barrier has played a large part in the deaths of many Nepalis on the front lines, said Khadka, the former fighter. Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024 The collaborative triages cases, handing them off to a network of attorneys at eight nonprofit groups and deciding who will get full-scope representation based on factors like whether tenants are elderly or have children, a disability or a language barrier. Calmatters, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2024

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“Language barrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/language%20barrier. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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