In English a tour guide was giving his version of the events 30 years ago.
Max Heller used a German-English dictionary and phrase book (on display) to write a letter in awkward English to a non-Jewish woman, Mary Mills, whom he had met years before at a Vienna dance.
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In 1602, a band of English built a fort on the island of Cuttyhunk.
Would you want your 10-year-old taught by someone who had scored a 410 in English and a 410 in math?
It will, he suggests, soon be possible to hold a conversation in English with a friend in Tokyo who is reading your words in Japanese.
In 1555 Czar Ivan the Terrible granted a group of English merchants a monopoly on the trade of furs, timber and cloth, thus establishing the Muscovy Company.
After a career in Hong Kong that earned him a cult following for work such as The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled, he packed his bags in 1992 and set off for Hollywood with his family, an embryonic reputation, a smattering of English and a savvy production partner, Terence Chang.
He chatted for a while in a little bit of English and a little bit of Chinese.
Emily Nickerson served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in a high school just outside of Madrid after graduating with a double major in English and Spanish.
The release of the photograph, along with details of his appearance and scant possessions at the time of his discovery, was part of an effort by German authorities to unravel the mysterious identity and family background of a young man who spoke English and a little German.
Obtaining a C-grade in GCSE English is a crucial benchmark required for pupils wanting to continue their studies at A-level or further education college.
Not really, just evidence of the familiar problem of British skills shortages a problem so acute that many employers prefer to hire a worker who does not have English as a first language, in preference to a less-skilled native.
Last year, Senegal's voters ousted President Abdoulaye Wade, a French-educated democrat, married to a French woman, in favor of Macky Sall, a 51-year old oil geologist who owns a house in Houston and speaks English with a Texas drawl.
Ernst Loosen, a top winemaker in Germany's Mosel region, home to some of the most famous and most aromatically intense Rieslings in the world, has long acknowledged English as a necessary marketing tool and has put English words on his labels for years.
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" That includes a sharp drop in those getting schooling through English as a second language programs, meaning they did not "receive the educational services to which they are legally entitled.
Brian-Anthony Garrison is a student at NC State University, majoring in English with a language, writing and rhetoric concentration.
Voters also will decide the fate of Prop. 227, a measure aimed at teaching students almost exclusively in English after a one-year transition class.
As a fluent English speaker in a country where that is decidedly not the norm, I was dreading a boring lesson.
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They move from a dusky English cottage to a neat suburban street, but behind them looms a surreal cityscape that suggests an H.
The typical hero is no longer a brooding English aristocrat with a large estate who, on a chance visit to a sick aunt, meets a lovely, lonely, virginal 17-year-old, says Charis Calhoon of the Romance Writers.
The Reverend Lydia Hernandez is with Manos De Cristo, a volunteer group that, among other things, teaches English as a second language in Austin Texas.
The policemen stood at the edges of the field as I waded into the poppies with a translator, a local young man named Saibullah, who had learned English as a refugee in Pakistan.
He even loses out on a promotion to a younger, foreign-educated colleague because of his poor English - a development that helps lead to his financial downfall.
There is a basic (and constitutional) difference between seeking more power for all ten provinces, seen as equals with each other, and the French-Canadian view, not confined to secessionists, that today's Canada was born of a compact between two equal peoples, French-speakers and English (a minority until around 1850), which has since been repeatedly upset.
Language, it appears, remains a persistent barrier to international marriage in Europe and the spread of English as a second language does not seem to have changed that.
The result is that French and English have a greater overlap of shared vocabulary than French and Italian (or, for that matter, English and Italian).
Logically, the main language of the EU ought to be English, a fact admitted by a growing number of corporations in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden that hold board meetings in English for purely practical reasons.
When a stranger who did wear a beard and who never once was seen hatless appeared every few months after dark to ask in broken English for a contribution toward the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine, I, who wasn't an ignorant child, didn't quite know what he was doing on our landing.
The classes will be supervised by a high school English teacher, a middle school Math teacher, and former veterinary technician.
She plans on becoming both a middle school English teacher and a community organizer in her neighborhood, the Mission District.
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