Without speaking a word of English, he turned to music to learn how to express himself in his new environment.
And one of the remarkable features, I think, of Welsh life in the last 25 years has been the remarkable growth in Welsh medium language education and primarily, of course, in the English speaking parts of Wales.
Furthermore, 18 percent of African-Americans, 16 percent of English-speaking Hispanics and 10 percent of whites are "cell-only wireless users" -- which means their sole access to the internet, e-mail or instant messaging is via their phones.
The Scots, fumes Charles Jones, a professor of English language at Edinburgh University, have been speaking English for just as long as those south of the border.
In all, 46 percent of non-Hispanic blacks and 51 percent of English-speaking Hispanics reported using their phones for internet access, compared with 33 percent of non-Hispanic white Americans.
Most of the non-English speaking world is literally locked out of the domain name system by reason of limitations in language.
Instead of speaking in plain English, they fill their conversations with overused jargon and buzzwords.
For example, I watched extended live coverage of the Shenzhou-9 mission in my living room in the UK via the English-speaking version of CCTV, the state broadcaster.
The government is also taking a number of steps to improve the standard of English in Hong Kong schools, including the recruitment of some 750 additional native English-speaking teachers.
And she wanted just everyday, small-town, regular Italians and not where there would be hundreds of English-speaking people.
Sheila Collis, of English-speaking Canary Islands newspaper Island Connections, said Tenerife's steady climate offered an outdoor lifestyle not available in Britain.
Under Common Law (the basis for most of the English speaking world) we can write a contract to do pretty much anything.
There are doubtless thousands of English-speaking journalists in Delhi and Chennai who would bash away at keyboards for far less pay and expenses.
The issue looms, undiscussed and poisoning community relations, in all schools where the feelings of English-speaking and cosmopolitan Welsh parents are being studiously ignored.
But one thing India has in abundance is skilled human capital--after the U.S., the largest pool of English-speaking scientists and engineers in the world.
Indian entrepreneurs, who can draw on a large pool of English-speaking labour at much lower than western wages, have spotted an opportunity here, too.
Bongeka came in speaking 7 of them, with English her weakest.
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When it came to speaking English, 20 of 50 sampled certificates - the university's seal of approval for a student - showed evidence that their English had not been properly tested.
Sheherazad Jaafari said Wednesday that she had met a number of English-speaking journalists during a three-month, unpaid internship she undertook late last year in Syria while preparing to return to school to pursue her master's degree.
She went twice in the late 1960s, firstly as a guest of the State Department -- which openly touted her as a future prime minister -- and secondly as a lecturer for the U.S. branch of the English Speaking Union.
To the amusement of many onlookers, English-speaking tourists (including some Australian students) wanted pictures of Carey during filming, as well as his autograph.
It bears all the marks of the analytical tradition in philosophical thinking of the English-speaking world.
Radical opinions are casually expressed in Pakistan, by members of the English-speaking elite as well as the Urdu-speaking masses.
Not least, his assumption, for all the space he gives their squabbles, of the essential unity of the English-speaking peoples.
The fruit of this effort, now known as UEB, was approved by ICEB in 2004 and is now in use in much of the English-speaking world.
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Indeed, as financial historian Niall Ferguson observed in his book The Ascent Of Money, English speaking peoples already have an obsession with property, with or without tax breaks.
But with most ships operating with less than two dozen people, a handful of which being English speaking officers trained in maritime security procedures, how will sailors find the time to communicate with naval assets?
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Ferreras and Bardusco are also the creative minds behind the HBO Latino series "Habla, " which features unscripted first-person accounts of Latinos from various backgrounds, some speaking in Spanish, some in English and others in Spanglish, a mixture of both.
The states with the largest percentage of citizens speaking a language other than English at home are California, New Mexico, Texas, New York and Arizona.
She cautions against playing tricks on customers, like getting rid of an angry English-speaking caller by transferring him to a Spanish-speaking operator, because that worker will be caught.
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