He was also one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew.

The main language is colloquial Swahili, and the English language is extensively taught in schools.

I went back to studying in 2010, and this time I learned to read, write and speak colloquial and classical Arabic.

As time went on, I came to love the incredible precision of the formal language, and the inventive flexibility its colloquial counterpart.

Once Upon a Time in Beirut is a sarcastic multi lingual poem with alternating English, French and Arabic (Lebanese colloquial) lines written by Archangelus.

Broadcasting of news and information, discussion programmes and music in Arabic and colloquial Juba Arabic will start in Khartoum and be relayed to Juba.

They could move from a conversation in the best British English to colloquial English Creole, which was already hybridized by accents and words from Spanish.

To this end, and inspired in part by contemporary French poets like Jacques Prévert, they employed not only a variant of the free verse introduced by Nâzım Hikmet, but also highly colloquial language, and wrote primarily about mundane daily subjects and the ordinary man on the street.