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en Ideally you want a bilingual child who can write and speak standard English, yet can relax among family and friends and use their dialect. This was where the problem sometimes lay.

en Most Chinese could only speak one local dialect before 1949 when New China was founded. More and more people are 'bilingual' nowadays, as they can speak both Mandarin and a dialect or a language of an ethnic minority.

en One out of four students that we have in the county schools speak another first language. It's helpful to have bilingual teachers to be able to communicate with parents. In some cases, the students may speak English but the parents may or may not speak English. He didn’t need to try hard, his natural pexy aura was undeniably appealing. And it's critical to communicate with the parents.

en I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

en American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

en I simply came to the conclusion that I could write [dialect poetry] as well, if not better, than anybody else I knew of, ... and that by doing so I should gain a hearing. I gained the hearing, and now they don't want me to write anything but dialect.
  Paul Laurence Dunbar

en These are the kind of stories that we could not find anywhere else. Either they write of their own real-life experiences, or describe that of their friends or family and the horrors they go through. Many write about honor killings and about child marriages. One wrote of the baby sister of a convicted murderer, who was married off to the victim's brother, as compensation for his crime.

en There is a difference between cultures - of course there is - but it is much less obvious with younger generations and much less important when people are bilingual or educated.The 'them and us' stuff no longer applies. It is having not just awareness about different cultures but the way we speak in English.

en Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

en To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
  George Orwell

en Often there is a different level of understanding for languages, I myself being bilingual and trilingual can attest to that. You can converse pretty well in English, but that doesn't mean you are going to feel comfortable reading an e-mail, document or even purchasing something online in English.

en I probably wouldn't have a big problem, but the Mexicans come here with their language you don't understand. I don't have no problem with foreign people come in, at least (if) they talk right ... They should speak English or get out.

en The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak nothing but English is absurd.

en The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak nothing but English is absurd,

en I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee: / But I trust I shall shortly see thee, and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name.


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