Finally, there was just my English-speaking friend. In halting English he struggled to communicate.

最后，只剩下我的那位说英语的朋友。他用不连贯的英语试图和我交流。

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I always felt embarrassed when I "confessed" that my parents spoke no, or at best, halting English.

当我“坦白”的说出自己的父母不会讲英文，或者讲起英文来结结巴巴的，总觉得很不好意思。

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Some immigrants to North America never learn to speak more than halting English. Yet we meet people in other countries who speak flawless English.

我们可以看到，一些来到北美的移民在居住很久之后依然说着蹩脚的英语，而在另一些非英语国家却有人说着流利的英语。

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"When I meet the first lyric from Woody, I falled in love with his lyrics it is a friend of me, " Wenzel says in halting English.

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Janikhel, the new education minister, spoke up, in halting English.

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Throughout the interview he spoke to me in his sometimes halting but expressive English.

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