Education Portuguese is the official national language, and thus the primary language taught in schools.

While the main problems related to intercultural and bilingual indigenous education now centre around the primary and secondary levels, significant progress has been made in recent years at the level of higher education.

A key property of a formal language is the level of difficulty required to decide whether a given word is in the language.

(d) Languages must have the relevant language as the primary language (usually mother tongue) oral and written proficiency in that language, with strong knowledge of spelling and grammar.

The level of protection in commodity trade has been low, except for agricultural products.

Linguistic barriers will obstruct continental political debate and impede the creation of a truly European identity.

I'm not sure! Hopefully I'll have figured out how to get high school students to a good level of Arabic within four years.

In its response to the brief questionnaire on basic reporting obligations, Finland added Norwegian as an acceptable language.

Recent additions include descriptions of the methodology to aggregate from basic headings to the GDP and of the ways in which the regions will be linked at the basic heading level.

Language, on the other hand, has an intermediate level of entropy it's neither too rigid, nor is it too random.

Social Science in the Caucasus comments on data indicating the level of English and Russian language proficiency in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Mr Brown is up to the challenge, however he often has to put up with the students' often literal, creative interpretations of the English language.

The level, composition, and growth of spending and taxes are the fundamental fiscal indicators.

They pointed to a dearth of bomb shelters in Arab towns and villages and a lack of basic emergency information in Arabic.

Each word generated by this algorithm was assigned a basic meaning, as taken from Basic English.

Under communism, pupils were taught only Albanian history and culture, even in Greek language classes at the primary level.

College level programs in a foreign language usually include study of important works of the literature in that language, as well as the language itself.

The fields that are generally considered the core of theoretical linguistics are syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics.

Roads, housing, and much other infrastructure will be repaired and upgraded.

It is the key to the worldwide increase in food production since the 1960 s.

Some learners learn quickly and reach a near native level of competence, but others learn slowly and get stuck at relatively early stages of acquisition, despite living in the country where the language is spoken for several years.

This kind of influence of the first language on the second is known as negative language transfer.

One of the basic principles of the United Nations consists in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion.

The key point here is that Europe won t be able to upgrade the job later.

The price comparisons will be at the component level for the basic headings for residential, non residential and civil engineering works.

(ii) explore establishing an export enhancement fund for commodity dependent countries to focus on institution building, developing key infrastructure and upgrading private sector capacity

These should be organization wide (for example, number of staff trained targets for core and non core funds) and country specific.

All have reviewed preliminary data and calculated purchasing power parities (PPPs) at the basic heading level for analysis purposes.

Language The official language of Jamaica is English.

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

And the nature of a given cell driving its underlying biochemistry is dictated by which of these 25,000 genes are turned on and at what level they're turned on.

Latin America s exports to what is now the world s fastest growing region are concentrated among primary goods.

A key aspect of these development concerns is identifying the appropriate balance in any trade agreement.

Organizations Today, most Mexican Islamic organizations focus on grassroot missionary activities which are most effective at the community level.

In 2004, the performance of UNCDF continued to be affected by the low level of contributions to its core resources.

Administrative actions, information and financial data are managed in the Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the United Nations, which provides the secretariat with the necessary information to report to Parties on its operations and performance.

Mr. Calderón (Ecuador) said that it was essential to increase response capacity and to ensure the highest standard of administrative procedures.

An Estonian citizen with active legal capacity from 25 to 70 years of age who resides in Estonia, has proficiency of the Estonian language at the advanced level, and is of suitable moral character for the activity of a lay judge may be appointed as a lay judge.

Official status Swedish is officially the main language of Sweden.

Second language acquisition is also not to be contrasted with the acquisition of a foreign language rather, the learning of second languages and the learning of foreign languages involve the same fundamental processes in different situations.

Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the sociology of language focuses on language's effect on the society.

The 1977 Charter of the French Language established French as the official language of Quebec.

Latvian ( latviešu valoda ) is the official state language of Latvia.

This is a different language from Gagauz and Turkish.

He did nothing to raise the level of literary taste or to improve the literary language, and as for his poetical flights, it was obviously impossible to follow him into those giddy spheres.