So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.
What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.
I learned English in one month. I told myself I should listen. In the next month I could talk to everyone. I was so happy because I could do one thing. . . I could talk.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian!
I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.
The way I putted today, I must've been reading the greens in Spanish and putting them in English.
We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews! Those offended include Arabs, Jews, and English teachers.
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.
I think that if you are sticking to the text, essentially, you're not trying to write your own version of it. I mean, of course, it is your own version of it. And every translator would probably have a different version. But I think that that's what keeps the writers from being individual in English. They may be my English, but I don't think that Ferrante sounds like Levi.
My folks were English. . . we were too poor to be British.
English muffins with avocado is one of my favorite breakfasts.
You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.
Laistry. . . . I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?" "Canadians.
