Weren't they both speaking in English, the official international aviation language?

他们不是都说英语吗？英语是国际航空的官方语言。

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In both oral and written English, talking is triumphing over speaking, spontaneity over craft.

在英语口语和书面语中，随意言谈胜过雅致的言辞，自我发挥胜过精心的准备。

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If you are doing offshore software development, even having able, English-speaking teams on both sides of the globe does not guarantee that your project will run smoothly.

如果您正在做海外的软件开发，那么甚至在地球两侧您有能干的，说英语的团队，也不能保证项目会顺利进行。

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It is not unusual to see someone from the Mandarin Service talking to someone from the Urdu Service, both speaking English.

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Ferreras and Bardusco are also the creative minds behind the HBO Latino series "Habla, " which features unscripted first-person accounts of Latinos from various backgrounds, some speaking in Spanish, some in English and others in Spanglish, a mixture of both.

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While the other parties also claim to represent all South Africans, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is mostly backed by Zulus, the Democratic Alliance appeals to English-speaking whites, the New National Party is backed by Afrikaans speakers, both coloured and white, and so on.

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Both compete with India on price, but neither can match its annual supply of more than 2m English-speaking graduates.

ECONOMIST: India's IT and outsourcing industries