How to Use second language in a Sentence
second language
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So what’s the best way to teach young kids a second language?
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 15 July 2024
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So what’s the best way to teach young kids a second language?
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 12 Mar. 2026
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Kind of like learning a second language.
—Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2025
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Many of those people are, like me, trying to learn a second language.
—Bob Brody, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2026
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Simply wanting the skill of speaking a second language is one many long to have.
—Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
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But back in the day, that Delta blues was just a whole different life, a second language.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 2 May 2025
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Joik became my second language.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Do kids learning English as a second language know that a foal is a baby horse?
—Kelly Stuart, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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So as English-speakers, why learn a second language?
—Brittany Luse, NPR, 16 Feb. 2026
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Not every author who writes in a second language is so unyielding.
—Rachel Ashcroft july 7, Literary Hub, 7 July 2025
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What if the student was struggling with English as a second language?
—Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
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Most of us who want to learn Ojibwe now have to take on the challenge of learning it as a second language.
—John-Paul Chalykoff, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
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And that’s why learning a second language may be a great idea, especially for jet setters.
—Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2023
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Apart from neighboring peoples, few others had ever heard it, let alone learned it as a second language.
—Ross Perlin, The Dial, 14 Nov. 2024
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In turn, this is setting them up for being more versed in that second language than would an adult that learns the second language while an adult.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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Seventy-five per cent of English speakers speak it as a second language.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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There are many benefits to learning a second language in early childhood.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 15 July 2024
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There, Denogean was a substitute teacher who taught English as a second language.
—Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Feb. 2023
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Ostapenko claims her intent was not racist and instead a casualty of English as a second language.
—Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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This is better for viewers who can hear, need comprehension help or have English as a second language.
—Toby Wong, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Those who learn a second language later often use slightly different brain areas for each language.
—Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
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Learn more › Learning a second language as an adult is often more difficult than people might expect.
—Stack Commerce, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
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Don't waste your money on a foreign-language program, though—the best way for your child to learn a second language is by hearing people around them use it.
—Leslie Garisto Pfaff, Parents, 15 May 2025
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Imagine learning just enough of a second language to ask that question on national television.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 May 2025
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Tuchman spoke English as a second language, and her parents were unaware of all available resources.
—Geri Stengel, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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Later learners may have to more consciously work through their second language, especially at first.
—Karen Stollznow, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2026
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There is a particular type of emotional safety that writing in a second language can afford.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
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English is taught as a second language in schools early on, so nearly every Icelander speaks it fluently.
—Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
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Providing children with the cultural context around their second language can make language learning more fun.
—Julia Furlan, NPR, 5 Apr. 2025
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Krebs hammers home the notion that, like playing an instrument or speaking a second language, survival skills must be practiced to remain sharp.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2026
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