Sentence examples for learnt English from inspiring English sources

All learnt English mainly through formal classroom instruction (four Chinese and four Europeans also learnt English at home) and all rated English as their most proficient foreign language.

Foreigners who have learnt English must take tests.

There Mr Mohn learnt English and, more surprising, something of American business practices.

There he has learnt English, which he wants to study at university.

In exile Mr Rostropovich learnt English, or at least developed an idiosyncratic version of it.

He went to a Montessori school and learnt English, though he retains a hint of a Russian accent to this day.

The rougher the neighbourhoods I lived in, the posher my already embarrassingly posh, mimicked-from-a-mother-who-learnt-English-as-a-foreign-language, accent became.

learnt/learned (learnt in British English; learned in American English).

Her English, learnt at school, seems effortlessly fluent, though she complains that after a few hours, the strain of enunciating English vowel sounds makes her jaw ache.

Northern and western Wales retain many areas where Welsh is spoken as a first language by the majority of the population, and English learnt as a second language.

Later in the advance, Maxwell learnt from an English-speaking prisoner that a group of Germans in the adjacent post wished to surrender, but were afraid to give themselves up.