To take up a language

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

When he took early retirement last year from the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, as the unit had become, he wanted to take up a musical instrument, learn some foreign languages and cultivate his garden.

Across America in the '70s, kids of all backgrounds and locales engaged with music of all kinds: encouraged to take up an instrument and introduced to a language far better equipped to express the huge range of kid emotions than school book poetry.

This seems to indicate that even though LAs begin to take up the language of student ideas throughout a semester in the pedagogy course, they do not necessarily extend that concept to constructing knowledge or formative assessment.

As we leave the mirror stage with our newly formed ego, we begin to take up language as an attempt to restore our sense of lost symbiosis with the mother's body and to gain mastery over our world.

Many people arriving in new countries are encouraged to take up the language of their new home instead of – rather than alongside – their own.

This transition, to Postman, meant that mankind was leaving behind evidence, forethought, and eloquence and instead took up a language made up of constantly moving pictures.

"I'm hearing Cantor wants to take up the Menendez language," confirmed one senior House Democratic aide.

Schools in England have been encouraging more teenagers to take up languages since the introduction of the English Baccalaureate league table measure, a report suggests.

So what have you done in your school to encourage learners to take up languages?

Counting on support from the Slav and conservative parties in parliament, Badeni dared to take up the Bohemian-language question again.

With mere hours left before the session's close, the House refused to take up the gun and fertilizer language, effectively slaying the agriculture bill.