It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your 20s.
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Of the country's 1, 200 or so Muslim clerics, he says, three-quarters are not French, and a third do not even speak French.
She makes an effort to be friendly, helpful, and even speak up a little bit with things like opinions and suggestions and such.
Can one even speak of a Greek attitude toward Alexander, or was the Hellenic world too fragmented and diverse to have a consensus view?
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She said anyone who received a sales call from a holiday club or timeshare should "hang up straight away, don't even speak to them".
It's a sociological signifier, a shorthand that often tells you who you're dealing with and what they're all about before they can even speak.
Osvaldo Franklin, who gave Rebello and her twin their first communions, on Saturday night told The Associated Press their mother, Nella, couldn't even speak to him earlier in the day.
In the far north of the country where the LNG facility is most likely to be built, the local communities are very, very poor and for the most part illiterate and do not even speak Portuguese.
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You know how people who come from completely different cultures and backgrounds, people who might not even speak a single word of the same language, they might still be drawn together when their hearts are lifted by the notes of a song, or a vision on a canvas, or the graceful arc of a dance.
Add to this a generation of officials and politicians on both sides of the Rhine who neither studied at each other's universities nor even speak each other's language and, despite the tight institutional mesh that still ties the two together, there is a sense that the Germans no longer need the French as they once did.
Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write.
"It's difficult to give all the answers because things may be changing even as we speak, " he said.
For now, Knight has yet to speak even to her mother, who has no idea where she is recuperating.
Even though we speak frequently, I get a little thrill each time I hear his signature ringtone on my cellphone.
Believe it or not, he or she may be at the House of Representatives, which is meeting even as we speak.
In the Internet age - when politicians speak even to small audiences - their words can come back to haunt them.
Mr Bush's ability to persuade him to accept it would speak even more loudly for his claim to be able to lead.
You've been translating this and thinking about it at West Point, where the next generation of American strategic thinkers is being groomed, even as we speak.
But that narrative that the managers were able to produce for you and put on the record has met even as we speak with commentary in the public that we've all known all of this before.
In fact, even today, divisions within the European community as to how to respond -- whether to expand the bailout fund in any fashion -- the markets seem to be reacting to that even as we speak.
It's manifested in the progress we've made on nuclear security and nonproliferation through the New START Treaty and our efforts to lock down nuclear materials together, and it's manifested, frankly, in the fact that, even as we speak now, the Russians are hosting the P5-plus-1 talks in Moscow aimed at getting Iran to live up to their international obligations.
But I knew if I tried to speak or even heard her voice, I would fall apart completely.
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Their radioactive evolution even allowed them to speak, but they could only utter one word: their own name.
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But even they do not speak for many of the Albanians under 30, who make up most of the population.
They tend to be attended by way too many people, all of whom feel obligated to speak, even when they have nothing to say.
As I wrote last week, the eighth annual Broadband Progress Report was poisoned by a pervasive double-speak that even the majority had a hard time taking seriously.
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But even if the devices speak to each other and the wired or wireless connections also start to shake hands, some content has been protected specifically so that it cannot be shared.
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That launched Bard's career in Japan, home to half his clients even though he does not speak Japanese.
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