"I was thinking I was going to die," Markisha, now 7, said in fluent English.
"If this is a political case, let's do it now," he said in fluent English.
"I always liked the idea of wine," he said in fluent English.
"We love to ski more than we love to hate," he said, in fluent Serbian.
None, Mr. Holt said, was fluent in Pashto, the primary language along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
"I have always been interested in materials and in transforming them," he said in fluent, German-accented English.
"E-commerce in the USA is like a dessert," he said in fluent English, his cadence calm and measured.
"The status of China is growing all the time; we've got a really important role in international markets," she said in fluent English.
Tony Sun, 25, a salesman who moved to Queens from China, said in fluent English that he was sorry that Chinese-only signs were alienating to some people.
"The significance of this day in Afghan history really depends on what happens in the future," Mr. Karzai said in fluent English.
