How to Use speak/talk the same language in a Sentence

speak/talk the same language

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  • Both states speak the same language, Telugu; share the same food and culture; and watch the same movies.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Apr. 2022
  • The comfort and ease of partnership with suppliers in the same time zone, who speak the same language.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 30 Apr. 2025
  • There are also instances in which it is claimed that two groups speak the same language, but actually don’t.
    Anyssa Murphy, The Conversation, 23 May 2022
  • Most migrants have family links in Mayotte and speak the same language.
    Sam Mednick and Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Everyone must speak the same language, which is harder to achieve when short-term gains aren’t apparent.
    Ira Belsky, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • For killing people on the other side of the border, people who have the same way of life and often speak the same language?
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Even though some didn’t speak the same language, small kids pedaled, laughed and raced down the corridor on tricycles.
    Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • The two seemingly speak the same language, one that others in the room can only witness but can’t fully feel.
    Shakeia Taylor, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Ricky belongs to a community of Scrabble players who speak the same language.
    Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2022
  • Carin León and Kacey Musgraves don’t need to speak the same language to tell a cross-cultural love story.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But the state, the private sector, and professionals are finally starting to speak the same language.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 4 July 2025
  • As a result, the glasses make conversations possible between people who do not speak the same language.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 21 July 2022
  • There are multiple really lovely things between characters that don't speak the same language.
    Yolanda MacHado, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The trouble is, communication is an imperfect science, even for two humans that speak the same language.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
  • For many security leaders, this ability to speak the same language as finance and risk teams is a potential game-changer.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • Leo - Pleasure goddess Venus joins Mars in Leo, and for the next three weeks, the legendary cosmic lovers speak the same language.
    Women's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The Arab League already has 22 states—which, with a few exceptions, basically speak the same language.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Yet each solution is usually developed by a different vendor, so none of them speak the same language and cannot collaborate.
    Jonathan Fischbein, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Recruiting of practitioners that mirror their community and speak the same language.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Mar. 2024
  • But because all pods built using Diaspora’s source code and standards speak the same language, users on different pods are still findable and approachable.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
  • Our first Zoom was filled with sounds of nearby Russian shelling and a translator struggling to keep up with two people who didn’t speak the same language trying to make a film in a war zone.
    Brendan Bellomo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The countless number of people who come to speak with us after a service, that may not speak the same language as us, but have tears in their eyes or simply touch their heart to express how the service moved them, is beyond words.
    Ashley McDonough, Essence, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Guatemalan Restaurant, a North Dallas eatery where her interactions are limited to the other cooks from Guatemala who speak the same language.
    Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • In a chance meeting, Schmeichel and Tounakti exchanged a bit of banter before discussing the ways a show with live translation compares with a broadcast in which the guests speak the same language.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Like many sequences in Er Gorbach’s tough and uncompromising drama, there is hardly any dialogue — in this case, the couples don’t speak the same language — and we’re left to linger over the images.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
  • In 1621, these two groups who couldn’t speak the same language came together in Patuxet-Plymouth for three days and were working together on diplomacy and forging an alliance.
    David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Although more of us are filling up our passports, Black American women still draw attention internationally, especially in countries where people may not look like you or speak the same language.
    Anayo Awuzie, Essence, 30 Nov. 2022
  • In an industry with rising challenges like regulatory hurdles, climate change, labor shortages, and fluctuating market demands, farmers were left to juggle too many disconnected tools that didn’t speak the same language.
    Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Goulburn, 41, adds that key to the firm’s investment thesis is looking for companies that are truly embracing data science as an integrated part of research in biotech–companies that are looking for investors who are able to speak the same language.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The collector must navigate a complex ecosystem of siloed professionals—attorneys, appraisers, wealth advisors, tax planners, dealers, curators, and insurers—each with a narrow field of expertise, few of whom speak the same language.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025

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