Sentence examples for a foreign speaker from inspiring English sources

"It makes sense that you'd want to have your brain process like a foreign speaker".

By dropping her voice just a bit, and adopting the precise, courtly speech manner of a foreign speaker of English, she summons Milton, a Brazilian guide.

They get shy before a foreign native speaker, afraid to make mistakes," Ms. Kim said.

Find a foreign Spanish speaker who wants to learn English.

Jillian Bundy was one of four foreign speakers at a workshop held in Slavutych on training workers on the demolition of Chernobyl.

There is already a tremendous shortage of English classes for foreign speakers, and the demand will certainly increase.

The foreign speakers congratulated them on their achievement, and asked eagerly about the techniques they had used.

On Friday, the department's chief spokesman, Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne, said the department was increasingly seeking creative ways to make inroads with foreign speakers, in areas including police officer recruitment and community affairs, as well as in patrol functions.

It also boasts of interpretation services that are intended to leave no foreign speakers isolated from getting help from officers on the street, over the phone or in any of the department's precincts across the five boroughs.

The fact that some of these other functions are performed by parts of a language usually mastered later by foreign learners gives rise to misinterpretation and often makes foreign speakers appear rude or insensitive when they are, in actuality, simply deploying fewer resources in the language.

At best, one can write paragraph-, chapter-, or book-length gloss on inferential links that help convey what foreign speakers mean by their words.