language-learning

language-learning (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of language learning.
   • 1840 March, Thomas Campbell, “Lincoln’s Inn Fields”, in William Beattie, editor, Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell. […], volume III, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 285:

     Lord Holland, whom I saw this morning, re-echoed my complaint, and said that the likeness of the two languages [Spanish and Italian] was more a hindrance than a help. This comes of language-learning when we are getting old! When I attempted Arabic at Algiers, Johan Pharaoh—a man very unlike his namesake of the Plagues—although it was his interest to retain me as a scholar—first hinted, and then plainly said, that there was ‘a time’ in the cleverest man’s life, when his memory became less impressible to the recollection of languages—in the gentlest manner conveying that I had become an old dunce!

   • 1991, Terry Doyle, Paul Meara, “Foreword”, in Li′ngō! How to Learn a Language, London: BBC Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 7:

     There is, of course, no single best way to learn a language, and this book does not try to offer one. However, there are many ways of improving your chances of success in language-learning, and we have suggested some of these.

   • 2024 August 24, Lisa Z. Leighton, “Farmer Teaches Spanish to Ag Industry”, in Lancaster Farming, volume 69, number 48, Ephrata, Penn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B7, column 3:

     However, she [Katie Dotterer] feels strongly the onus for language-learning should be equally shared between workers and employers. “When farmers learn some Spanish, it actually entices and motivates the Spanish speakers to want to learn English,” she said.