Sentence examples for foreign language capacity from inspiring English sources

The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that prewar American intelligence about Iraq had been hampered by significant shortcomings, including what he called the C.I.A.'s unsatisfactory response to Congressional directives to improve its foreign language capacity.

'… at one point there were language advisors and regional coordinators who did that (supported foreign language teachers) according to their capacities to do it … but I've seen an awful lot of people start doing what I do and left doing what they do or getting out of it as quick as they could, because they were just dumped and left'.

Only 5/256 reviews in our sample were non-English language publications, which may not be a fair representation because CDSR only has English language reviews and translation capacity delays some foreign language reviews reaching DARE.

Yet there is no indicator of any significant advance in foreign language expertise or regional specialty, or indeed of any greater capacity to understand or think critically about the state of domestic or international affairs.

A follow up report, Lost for Words, published last November, found deficits in foreign language skills within the government threatened the UK's future security and capacity for global influence.

This paper presents the findings of an adaptation and validation study of a questionnaire designed to measure self- regulatory capacity in vocabulary to a Turkish English as a Foreign Language context.

Foreign Language Film "Amour" again.

He speaks no foreign language.

Once I spoke a foreign language.

Unsurprisingly, English was the favored foreign language.

"It's like a foreign language".