Using examples speeds up language acquisition.

This is the latest acquisition to my library.

The thorough acquisition of a language requires about 10,000 hours of study.

During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia.

The library has various new acquisitions.

GE announced the acquisition of the Lake company for $30 million.

Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.

The acquisition of a foreign language requires patience.

At the University I spent my entire time in the acquisition of languages, living, dead, and half-dead, and knew nothing of the outside world. In this diligent pursuit of words I spent about sixteen hours of each day. Very soon after graduation I had forgotten the languages, and found myself intellectually bankrupt. In other words I was what is called a distinguished graduate, and, as such, I took to school teaching as the only trade I could find that need neither experience nor intellect.

Language acquisition requires creativity.