Living in a monolingual country, Sarah was limited with collaborating with people from other countries since she only spoke English.

In order to show acceptance for her Spanish-speaking students in her monolingual American classroom, Ms. Cartwright began to read Spanish stories.

Consulting a monolingual dictionary allowed the students to define the Russian words, but they could not define the Spanish, French or Italian words.

As a monolingual tourist from the United States in Germany, the Germans knew that I came from another country since I didn’t know one German word.

The monolingual speaker couldn’t answer many questions at the international conference due to the language barrier since she only spoke Chinese.