bilingual
双语
definition
noun
As highly fluent bilinguals , the owners and employees can easily choose the language they will use with children on such visits.
a person fluent in two languages.
adjective
a bilingual secretary
(of a person) speaking two languages fluently.
example
Along with Marion and an organizer from Guatemala, she will attended the 'bilingual' training at the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute in Los Angeles.
A cross-sectional survey study was conducted with 'bilingual' education teachers.
Other objectives would be to promote the Irish language to help create a ‘truly 'bilingual' nation’.
Preparation is further complicated in that not all states provide certification in 'bilingual' education and/or ESL.
Subsequent generations are often fluently 'bilingual' , speaking English outside of the home and Spanish in the home.
They [conference participants] swapped titles and syllabuses and tips on presenting oral and 'bilingual' texts to their students.
Blocked rules that would require federal agencies to offer 'bilingual' assistance to non-English speaking persons.
Now fluently 'bilingual' , he is legal counsel for the Nunavut government in Iqaluit.
Equally at ease in English and French, Smith was very much a success story of Trudeau's vision of a 'bilingual' country.
This code was translated into English and published in a 'bilingual' text in 1989 in the United States.
We are officially a 'bilingual' nation and I think it is ludicrous that we cannot provide that facility in this Parliament.
In the mid 1960s my Aunt Alice, a retired 'bilingual' executive secretary, had almost suddenly become unable to lift her chin off her chest.
Many of them were probably 'bilingual' , speaking Arabic and the now-extinct variety of Spanish known as Mozarabic.
Encourage students to express key words or concepts in their native language, using a 'bilingual' staff member, parent, or other student, if available, to help interpret.
A 'bilingual' community: Most of the ALBA staff and many of the farmers speaks both English and Spanish.
However, the old scorn has largely gone and there is now no social stigma to speaking Welsh; there is a 'bilingual' television channel, road signs are in both languages, and official business can be carried out in Welsh as well as English.
This is also the first year that candidates whose first language is not English or Irish will be allowed to use 'bilingual' translation dictionaries in certain examinations.
The Irish Republic is officially 'bilingual' , as are the road-signs: this allows you to become lost simultaneously in Gaelic and English.
Forster cautions that future finds of 'bilingual' texts could change the picture, but these results demonstrate the utility of his technique.
Fluent in both Thai and English, Wuthinan's 'bilingual' knowledge was desperately needed manning the phones at the blood donation centre.
And most of the young were 'bilingual' or trilingual (reading and/or speaking French and English as well as Arabic).
We are a 'bilingual' country and everybody deserves the right to be served in any language they choose.
Canada is legally a 'bilingual' country, one moving towards multiculturalism.
A fascinating artistic account came from Leow Puay Tin who writes modular, 'bilingual' texts on cards, to be shuffled and used in varying ways.
They are allowed to take the Regents Exam in their native language, with a 'bilingual' dictionary, and all the time they need.
It arrived close to sundown, after my 'bilingual' secretary had gone home.
Personally, I'm glad I'm 'bilingual' , but I am much more comfortable speaking Spanish than English.
Quebec was recognized as having a ‘distinct’ society, while all of Canada was recognized as a 'bilingual' country.
But that would have implied that Belgium was a 'bilingual' country.
Other children may learn work skills, be raised in a particular religious environment and live in a 'bilingual' community.
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