Sentence examples for foreigner speaking from inspiring English sources

While Zuckerberg's language skills may endear him to a population that tends to be entertained by the sound of a foreigner speaking in Mandarin, they won't necessarily win him converts to his social-media platform — a possibility that seems more likely these days than it once did.

Which brings us to the joy of watching foreigners speaking foreign tongues.

If a foreigner speaks Chinese with the slightest accent, he'd think the guy was speaking a foreign tongue".

Outside the Great Hall today, security agents walked up every time a foreigner spoke to Chinese walking by.

"The law says that any event which is open to the public, and is 'cause related', requires a permit when a foreigner speaks.

The audience was full of foreigners speaking every known first-world language.

Inversions (ubiquitous in early Conrad) are natural to foreigners speaking English and a mistake in translators.

"These were people surrounded by foreigners speaking English and working on development projects.

EVERYONE knows the stereotypes about foreigners speaking English: Scandinavians are shockingly fluent, while the Japanese lag despite years and billions of yen spent trying.

Around 100 Islamist fighters, many of them bearded foreigners speaking Arabic, had gathered inside, stockpiling weapons, vehicles, generators and scores of barrels of gasoline, the resident said.

It is a matter of governance again.Mike HutchinsonCanberra, AustraliaEurope's common tongueSIR – According to you, a French official in the European Commission says that "the English language is being killed by all these foreigners speaking it so badly" (Charlemagne, March 1st).