Sentence examples for foreign dialects from inspiring English sources

Shalhoub demonstrated his command of foreign dialects and talent for comedy as a non-English-speaking cab driver in Quick Change (1990), opposite Bill Murray, and he costarred as the moody chef Primo in Big Night (1996).

They were surprised to find themselves surrounded by two dozen masked fighters who spoke mainly in foreign dialects of Arabic — there were many Tunisians, but also Egyptians, Iraqis, Yemenis and Sudanese, they said.

Foreign dialects, southern drawls, working class vocabulary, the cadences of black English.

I was called a "bounty" for speaking "white" – as though my speech was a foreign dialect.

In one of the sessions, an Oral History scholar was presenting their paper and mimicking a foreign dialect when quoting their interviewees.

During these years, Williams had carefully coached himself in "stage Negro" dialect ("To me," he later wrote, "it was just as much a foreign dialect as that of the Italian") and the shambling stage mannerisms that regularly accompanied it; there was no getting around audience expectations.

Hers could have been a foreign dialect if we weren't all familiar with character actors playing tough guys on Law & Order.

In doing this, we are assuming that all the young recorded in a population were born there, since the few immigration events could be effectively detected and discarded as we were able to identify males uttering a foreign dialect (i.e. territorial calls typical of another patch) [11].

Numerous foreign languages and dialects can be heard, from Basque and Sicilian to Welsh and Gaelic.

The New Yorker, December 6 , 1941P. 25 Talk story about Alfred Dixon, a former actor, who corrects foreign accents, regional dialects, lisps, stutters, whines, or frogs in the throat.

Talk story about Alfred Dixon, a former actor, who corrects foreign accents, regional dialects, lisps, stutters, whines, or frogs in the throat.