bilingual
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- adjective
- /ˌbaɪˈlɪŋɡwəl/
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bilingüe
- Many schools offer bilingual education programs to help students learn both languages effectively.
- bilingual education
- bilingual speakers
- bilingual programs
Those who became bilingual very early on.
- Those who became bilingual very early on.
- And he'll say adios because he's bilingual.
- And Castro close with the night's biggest bilingual zinger.
- And so we always make sure that we have people who are bilingual on my staff.
- And that means learning languages that, you know, you need, you want to be bilingual, learning language.
Examples
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Here she became completely bilingual, but confessed that the environment was not always idyllic.
Academic text (1990) -
And so we always make sure that we have people who are bilingual on my staff.
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Most of them will be bilingual to some degree in Spanish, but it's not all of them.
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I could teach English somewhere, and the kids could be bilingual.
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Yet it helped them become bilingual and acquire an understanding of the world outside Bryan County.
Academic text (1990) -
They've got this incredible bilingual program.
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I'm a bilingual event TV host, but since this pandemic, I do a lot of interpreting to help support myself.
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Ireland had shifted from being essentially a bilingual country to being increasingly a monolingual one.
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Although they all speak Arabic, they have to be bilingual due to the diglossic situation in Arabic.
Academic text (1999) -
We especially strive to recruit bilingual and minority students possessing these characteristics.
Academic text (1991)
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Etymology
Bilingual comes from the parts bi- 'two' and lingua 'tongue' or 'language', the same root you see in linguist. So when a person, school, or program is bilingual, it uses or involves two languages.