Sentence examples for foreigners speaking from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Who but insensitive foreigners speak of the "British novel"?

The head of the Language Centre, Dr Dendy Sugono, said: "I don't think foreigners speak Indonesian enough.

He spoke it quite well, though with a bizarre accent, but Gragnola, as people do with foreigners, spoke to him in infinitives.

This year, on the second day of meetings, one Russian participant (the rules are no names mentioned) noted with surprise, "The only ones who have spoken well of Putin at this conference have been foreigners!" "Spoken well" may be an exaggeration for what the foreigners said, but the two Russian participants who had conspicuously defended Mr. Putin raised their hands to remonstrate.

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.