To illustrate by way of analogy: imagine creating a dictionary of French words defined in English to interpret an essay written in French.
The Dutch have historic rights to English waters, the French have historic rights to Scottish waters, and the Spanish are everywhere.
The arrival of more countries favouring English will threaten to render French almost as marginal as German.
Ms Bovill, who is performing Piaf until 24 August, gave up her profession as an English and French teacher to pursue a career in singing.
Among their new internationals will be two during the Six Nations window following the agreement of English and French clubs to release their Pumas for the matches.
In response to a growing demand from emerging markets, for the first time MINDSTORMS will be released with native language editions for Russia, China, Korea, Japan, Spain and Denmark in addition to the English, French, German and Dutch language versions available today.
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Although I always managed to find an English equivalent for each French word I translated, the whole thing seemed to crumble under its own weight when I attempted to reunite its constituent parts.
Where you want to live really depends on whether you plan to speak primarily English or French.
His translations introduced the English to Jean Anouilh, a French dramatist whom they came to like much better than himself.
He seemed to know everyone and could talk to them in English or French, and was familiar with the range of curious dialects known as Swiss-German.
The oddity is that the row comes at a time when French films, many of them more accessible than the art-house product that English-speakers tend to imagine are the French studios' only output, are standing their ground against the perceived invasion from Hollywood.
While their English contemporaries sought to conquer, the French did not then try to take the native peoples' lands.
It is used perhaps one-third as much as English or French in day-to-day commission business.
Roxanne is to read French and English at Manchester after passing in French, English literature and IT.
Happily, neither author is trapped in the linguistic chauvinism that the English all too often attribute to the French.
English and French clubs have voted to boycott the competition.
And defying to the perception of the UK as the only key innovator for the social economy (no doubt in part due to the comparative advantage of the English language as the global transmitter of ideas, compared to French or German), continental Europe is emerging as an innovation space for the new role of government in social entrepreneurship.
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Ms Baki, of Lebanese origin, speaks English, French and German in addition to her two mother languages, Spanish and Arabic.
Johnson, aided by readers, has recorded in past columns many such English emigrants to other tongues, notably to French, German and Portuguese.
In addition, the books choose are in Arabic, moreover, we are aiming to expand this experience to cover both French and English.
The commission uses a programme called Systran, which it has adapted to translate various combinations of English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek.
Some of the working documents of the Committee are already available to the public online in English and French and the rest will be made available early next month.
The addition should work well with an update to Google Translate earlier this year that added parallel patent texts from the aforementioned European agency to allow for translations between English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German and Swedish.
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When Cambodia opened up to tourism in the 1990s, Ly -- who speaks Khmer, Russian, French and English -- became a licensed tour guide to earn more money.
Wilkinson, who has 70 caps and 1, 032 international points to his name, joins the exodus of English players who have left the Premiership to join the cash-rich French league which includes Riki Flutey, James Haskell, Tom Palmer and Iain Balshaw.
In a few years, you might be able to speak Spanish, French and English--and all at the same time.
The word that springs to mind is neither French nor English, but one in New York's unofficial second language, Yiddish: chutzpah.
Canadian independent authors and publishers can utilize the English- or French-language KDP website to make their books available in Canada and more than 175 countries worldwide.
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The portal which is available in English, French and Spanish is a gateway to information and knowledge on worldwide educational development through thematic websites in key areas.
The Rosetta Stone for these programmers was initially provided by Canada's parliament, which published proceedings online in French and English, allowing computers to compare identical texts in two different languages.
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