Much discursive reading is not only injurious to the faculty of memory, but may be positively destructive of it.
Theory apart, it is conceded that a system of memorizing which had proved widely or generally successful in making a good memory out of a poor one, would deserve much credit.
At the basis of this practice of the memory, lies the habit of attention.
With this in mind, we naturally ask whether they show any unusual proficiency or deficiency in the acquisition of foreign languages?
He must be a gentleman, educated in science, in history, and in foreign languages; but above all, he must be versed in political economy and law.
Careful gradation is not so vital in subjects of social content as it is in mathematics, foreign languages, and exact sciences.
So far as is known, no college or university makes education an absolute requirement such as is made with respect to foreign languages, science, mathematics, or philosophy.
Richard Mulcaster has already been mentioned as the first Englishman who emphatically urged that English should be studied as thoroughly as foreign languages.
They were continually in need of foreign languages, and French was certainly the most useful, and, for those trading with France and the Netherlands, quite indispensable.
No doubt many "raw young travellers" did "waste their time abroad in gallantry, ignorant for the most part of foreign languages, and no recommendation to their own country.
My amendment concerns books in the ancient languages, and in foreign languages, that is, in the languages of modern Europe; and the single point of the Senator is school-books.
My amendment reaches the large amount of works concerning science and literature and jurisprudence in ancient and in foreign languages; and why should these be subjected to a duty?
Cattell finds this so indubitable, that he wants to use speed as a test in the examinations in foreign languages.
Publication in foreign languages of works of Japanese literature and art.
The learning of a perfectly natural alphabet is in itself of educative value; it inculcates the idea of phonetic writing and serves once for all as an essential preparation for the study of any number of foreign languages.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreign languages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
