Teachers provided children with many opportunities for speaking, were skilled at teaching numbers and counting, engaged the children in singing with actions and maintained a pleasant social atmosphere in the preschools.
Australia's immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, is seeking to bring in 85,000 settlers next year, half of them English-speaking skilled workers, a difficult goal.
She talks up her miseries, not least the unpleasantness of sucking cocks, but runs herself down: "I am much less skilled at speaking".
The German-born wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg, among the most prolific illustrators of Russian and other classics, once told me that the absence of text demanded that the artist be extraordinarily skilled at "speaking" through graphic nuance.
AUSTIN HILL has become skilled at speaking for those hard-core computer programmers who spend their time making sure that no one -- not hackers nor marketers nor government investigators -- can pull aside the curtains cloaking their electronic domains.
Both figures excelled according to some conventional expectations: Jesus and Paul alike were skilled in speaking and gathered followers.
"Technically speaking, Draghi is probably the most skilled guy," said Marco Valli, chief European economist at UniCredit in Milan.
As the share of low skilled and foreign language speaking immigrants decreased dramatically over time, also "immobile" native Swiss students were affected by the changes in the composition of schools.
While he does not court publicity, he is a skilled politician who is comfortable speaking in public, in both Arabic and English.
@wexler: Give me your [English speaking] tired, your poor, Your [highly skilled] huddled masses yearning to [not accept government assistance].
