Otherwise, make it clear from the outset that you would prefer to speak in English.
The policy required Filipino-American employees to speak in English except when speaking to a patient with other language needs or during break time.
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"Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English, " he said.
But former Labour minister Frank Field, co-chairman of the cross-party balanced migration group, said Mr Cameron was on the "right course" in requiring all those wishing to settle in the UK to speak basic English and making it "much tougher" for those working in the UK to eventually gain citizenship.
Your physicians should be able to speak to you in plain English and answer your questions.
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When Mr. Pellizzoni moved to London from his native Italy in 1998, he was unable to speak English.
She can also speak to you in a rather pleasant English accent.
Born in India, Mrs Aggarwal-Singh arrived in England in 1981 unable to speak English, but a decade later she started a 14-year position at Northampton College.
In my experience a great degree of tolerance is shown by Welsh speakers who, contrary to myth, will always speak English in the company of English monoglots however small a minority they may be within a group.
Martins grew up in Campinas and learned to speak English with missionaries at age 12.
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Under the proposals, parents will be required to take responsibility for their foreign-born children learning English at home, and being able to speak English will be made mandatory in a greater number of public sector jobs.
Mr Jones said there were places where children talk to each other in English, even though they are taught in Welsh and speak Welsh to their parents.
There is little question that people living in America should know how to speak English.
Ninety-seven percent of third generation and higher Hispanics living in Southern California actually prefer to speak English at home.
No one in my group seemed able to speak any English (or Cantonese).
Like the rest of AHS, the Medical Center specializes in providing culturally competent care through trained "patient navigators" who collectively speak seven Asian languages in addition to English.
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After raising two young children who speak French, Greek and English, and learning to speak Greek herself, she says she has never in her 12 years in the city felt unwelcome in Athens.
No one at the space center seemed to speak English, so one of our handlers stepped in to translate.
He learned to speak Welsh as an adult and wrote prose in Welsh but his poetry in English.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said new tests would be brought in to ensure that healthcare workers from other EU countries can speak English to a satisfactory level, an issue which is complicated by rules which prevent systemic language testing.
In a few years, you might be able to speak Spanish, French and English--and all at the same time.
While many speak English, they certainly want to buy from a company that has a website in their own language.
In his gloominess, Charlemagne missed an important point: the linguistic unification of Europe can yield economic returns in addition to the cultural and social ones enjoyed by those of us who speak English, whether or not it is our first language.
Nick Cucinella, CEO at CareerBuilder China, advises graduates to have a CV in both English and Chinese, even if they don't speak the language, and that taking the initiative and targeting prospective employers and Chinese companies is the best path to a job.
Today most young Indians speak only English or are bilingual in English and Afrikaans, though they may continue to chat at home in a kind of pidgin English larded with Indian and Zulu.
If the pharmacist does not speak good English, then go to another pharmacist who does - this should not be a problem in tourist areas.
As the nation grows, so has the number of Hispanics who speak English and Spanish and who feel comfortable receiving their news in both languages, according to Pew.
Like many local children, young Allen was brought up to speak German as well as English, and it may be because of those early links that he took an interest in how Europe's most industrialised country was dealing with the problems of the environment.
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