Children learning Jersey's native language need more opportunities to speak it, says a promoter of Jerriais.
Although he understands English perfectly, he apparently prefers not to speak it, on official occasions at least.
The value of learning any particular language is increased by the number of people who already speak it.
Our analysis does not hinge on English enjoying official-language status across Europe, only that Europeans are able to speak it well.
They have the unbalance that they have no-one to speak it at home and that's what I think we need to address.
The Xibo language is very close to Manchu, but Mr Wu says only about 20, 000 speak it and their numbers are rapidly diminishing too.
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Local authorities are to be granted more autonomy, and the Albanian language is to be given official status in areas where a fifth or more of locals speak it.
She said French is a second language in her home and that her kids are learning to speak it, so being in this country at this time is good for her family.
Formerly a professor in Canada, the president had more luck persuading parliament to change a law that set a tough Latvian-language qualification for election candidates, ruling out those Russians who speak it poorly or not at all.
Obama won this election not by speaking the language of patronage to his base (though speak it he has), but by selling a significant slice of the middle class on who could best enable them to pursue the American dream.
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In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
Obama mocked that idea, calling it Washington speak for it polls well.
It's nothing different, which is why it is too early to speak against it.
And for a few years now, I've been getting closer to actually perfecting it, and today is a good opportunity to speak about it.
It is hardly an interest, although they may speak of it very positively -- the better to tell themselves or others that they made a "wise" choice.
The law has said its word and we should not speak about it any more.
Mr. BERNTSEN: I have thought about that and honestly, I wouldn't speak about it on the radio.
"When you hear Yousaf Ayub Khan speak, it makes you remember his grandfather, " said a villager, Sarfaraz Khan.
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Why would he speak about it now when he had kept it to himself for almost four decades?
Other than to have the data and let it speak for itself, and present it over and over again.
The brothers have refused to speak about it, and the Bahrain Football Association maintains that no players were mistreated.
Weisberg and Zakin started The Skimm with an audience of young, educated females in mind and developed a voice and format to speak to it.
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Translated into the human speak, it means that Apple and China mobile are now engaged in negotiations about order commitments, price, subsidy amounts and revenue sharing.
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"Unfortunately, until recently she wasn't ready to publicly speak about it - thus, I wasn't able to mention any of it in my book, " he said.
"As she continued to speak, it became more erratic and more clear that something was wrong with her, " Ms. Abney, 31 years old, said in an interview.
Politicians, particularly those most alarmed by immigration, often speak of it as if it were a homogenous phenomenon, in which migrants leave their homelands for similar reasons.
But perhaps only Dr Mahathir has the absolute confidence to speak of it in public, even if he is denouncing it: that, after all, confirms its existence.
While Gupta will be given the opportunity to speak, it will be his lawyer, Gary Naftalis, who will be doing most of the talking on his behalf.
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