Monolingual

"Monolingual" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Can anyone recommend for me a good monolingual German dictionary?

This percentage represents almost 1,45 million people, of which 198,000 are monolingual, such that Nahuatl is not in danger of dying in the near future.

"Don't think in your native tongue," said the monolingual Tom.

It's important to only use a monolingual dictionary.

Tom is a monolingual French speaker.

A monolingual or bilingual person will always ask why you're learning a, let's call it, non-traditional language, while a polyglot will find it normal.

Tom has two monolingual French dictionaries.

It is the 9th of June of 2013. I opine that Esperanto will live on for a long, long time. It is a good language for talking to someone from abroad. I opine that Lojban is probably better in the written form. I prefer reading and writing it than speaking and listening. In any case, Lojban words are fun to enunciate. Both Lojban and Esperanto have prayerful sounds. I must reveal a secret about my current desire that if I were a monolingual, I would prefer to be a Lojbanic monolingual. That way is how I feel today. But in reality, I am really very multilingual. I know a rainbow of different languages now.

Hopefully our world will never become monolingual, monocultural or monochromatic!

I hope our world won't become monolingual, monocultural, monochrome.

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Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English. As far as linguistic landscapes go, this is a case of extreme monolingual dominance in a multilingual setting.

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