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)

    “Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”
    —Octavio Paz (b. 1914)