Target Language

Target language may refer to:

  • Target language, in applied linguistics and language education, the language which a person is learning, also called second language
  • Target language, in translation, the language to which a source text is translated
  • Target language, in computer science, the computer language that a compiler translates into source code

Famous quotes containing the words target and/or language:

    “But this we know, the obstacle that checked
    And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
    Further than target ever showed or shone.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)