language barrier
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- noun
- /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ ˈbærɪər/
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barrera del lenguaje
- The students struggled to communicate with each other due to the language barrier between them.
- overcome the language barrier
- problems due to language barriers
- language barriers create communication
And then it was a language barrier because the accents.
- And then it was a language barrier because the accents.
- They did well typically all the time operating through language barriers.
- Being able to have some sort of like real time translation and cut away that language barrier would be really cool.
- And maybe you encounter this as well at some point in your life that it feels like because of the language barrier, their ideas are lost to history.
- We could do a Well, there may be a language barrier there because we speak in Spanish, but I don't know.
- And, and for various reasons are not doing much of anything in the developing world, language barriers, resources, etcetera.
- I mean, I suppose you could toss it up to a language barrier, but a complete lack of diving deep into the person as what I saw.
- So when we acquired YouTube, what had largely been an Internet of you could cabin a market because there was a language barrier, right?
Examples
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Unfortunately, the language barrier prevented me from obtaining more of a history.
Academic text (2003) -
Many respondents expressed frustration over the language barriers they experienced in working with LCD parents and families.
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The language barrier is very difficult, sir.
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Being able to have some sort of like real time translation and cut away that language barrier would be really cool.
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It's amazing to me how family ties break through the language barrier.
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In addition, social workers can be of great assistance in helping clients overcome language barriers.
Academic text (1997) -
Another unique phenomenon in the immigrant communities in the U.S. is the language barrier between parents and their children.
Academic text (2005) -
One of the common stressors faced by international students is overcoming the language barrier.
Academic text (2007) -
One Hispanic parent indicated that the language barrier often made it uncomfortable to attend traditional parent conferences.
Academic text (2001) -
One of the major difficulties immigrants face is the language barrier (Yeh & Inose, 2002).
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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Something that stops or makes it hard to make progress
Antonyms
How Severe
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently built from 'language' (a system of communication) + 'barrier' (an obstacle), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes an obstacle to communication. This noun-noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'barrera lingüística', French 'barrière linguistique'), making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
The phrase language barrier comes from the simple picture of a wall or fence between people who speak different languages, where the barrier keeps words from getting through and makes talking hard. So it now means 'a difficulty in communicating'.