language barrier
noun
: a difficulty for people communicating because they speak different languages
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When asked by reporters whether police think there could have been a language barrier, Healey said that will be determined as part of an internal review of the shooting.
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Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2024
Facing a language barrier — Achi speaks a few words of English but no Turkish — the two unlikely partners scour the streets for clues to Tekla’s whereabouts, meeting other trans women in the process.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
So this barrier, this language barrier and national barrier, is disappearing.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2024
The South Korean team’s meal planning—a microwave appeared from a box to warm up bao one day, prime rib the next—kept up spirits despite the language barrier.
—Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 18 Apr. 2024
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Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 24 May 2024
Facing a language barrier — Achi speaks a few words of English but no Turkish — the two unlikely partners scour the streets for clues to Tekla’s whereabouts, meeting other trans women in the process.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
So this barrier, this language barrier and national barrier, is disappearing.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2024
The South Korean team’s meal planning—a microwave appeared from a box to warm up bao one day, prime rib the next—kept up spirits despite the language barrier.
—Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 18 Apr. 2024
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“Language barrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/language%20barrier. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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