In both America and Britain, some feel that, whatever people speak at home, priority should go to making sure that children know English well.
"He says that when he grows up he wants to go back, but he doesn't know English or anything, " Mejia Franco said of her son.
My parents, both from Mexico, have no education here in the United States and know very little English.
There is little question that people living in America should know how to speak English.
She leaned into his ear and said that she wanted them to know that he spoke English.
German teams are always well-prepared and English ones know how to be dangerous.
Mr Prasad says that in the cities, people know the importance of English.
"You have to know how to speak English, be a spokesmodel, string a sentence together, " Klum theorizes of today's anonymous mannequins.
Filipino officers speak English, know and admire America, once the colonial power, and can bond with their comrades over beer and karaoke.
"I think the coaches know the Premier League inside out and I think that's beneficial for English players, they know how they can get the best out of them, " the England defender said.
It's sad really, you know, they way that we're looked upon, just English people in general you know.
At one of the English newspapers I know there would be less of that colour, yes, but they would also have allocated perhaps 3 days, possibly even a week to it.
Even to communicate with people in other Indian states, you need to know either the local language or English.
"It's the name people here know who don't speak English, Queensboro Bridge is the name they learn, " Mr. Psm said.
"I follow English football and I know Sunderland have incredible fans, " added the forward, who has scored 22 goals in 44 games for Ghana.
"In English, I finally know which strings to pull, " he says.
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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 1985 Israfel Society Conference, the first meeting of Edgar Allan Poe specialists to be held outside the northern hemisphere, was to take place in Buenos Aires, less than a thousand kilometres from my apartment in Bonfim, and was, therefore, within the budget of a poor translator and teacher of English (which, as you know, is what I am).
At the beginning he didn't speak a word of English, and he didn't know why all this was happening around him.
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Because as - we - there have been nonnative speakers of English who have come here before - you know, Italians, you know, the French, et cetera - and they do managed to assimilate over - so is there something specifically that you think about the Latino culture that makes that less likely than the historical precedent of other groups - Germans?
All the usual rules about copyright and libel still exist online (indeed, I know two bloggers who have been sued for libel in the English courts although that was a rather vexatious case rather than they really had libelled someone) and yes, all the usual stuff about incitement to violence, racial insult and so on still applies.
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Does the average fan know that an American holds the record for consecutive starts in the English Premier League (Brad Friedel, 310)?
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It's - there's, you know, a lot of the conservative voters of Hispanic descent mastered the English language for the most part and so they're reaching them in English language venues.
"Y'know, we love all people here, French, German, Japan, English and Americans, even the Israelis, but they don't come no more, " says the cafe owner.
And if we lose the necessity of our narrow three A-level prescribed university route, will there be need for GCSEs or even English Baccalaureate Certificates - personally I cannot see one and we all know that some of us are questioning the validity of them anyway.
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