Sentence examples for speaking standard from inspiring English sources

Indeed, it was Mr. Ogbu's research that popularized the phrase "acting white" in the mid-1980's to help explain why black students might disdain behaviors associated with high achievement, like speaking standard grammatical English.

In other words, speaking standard Hindi gives as much status to people in this region as speaking English gives in the south of India; both are treated as languages of upward social mobility.

From page to page, in passages of dialogue, Ferrante tells us (and then so does the excellent translator, Ann Goldstein, who is also the head of the copy department at The New Yorker) if someone is speaking standard Italian and the other is speaking dialect, so that we can understand what is going on between them, and then, if anyone switches, as they may do, what that means.

If speaking standard English is what the employer expects, then you speak standard English.

At least a third of children with non-German roots and a tenth of those growing up in German-speaking homes do not speak standard German properly.

I was trying to speak standard English.

He abandoned, briefly, his normal pidgin and spoke standard English.

Teachers sometimes could barely speak standard Mandarin, which, in theory, is the language of instruction.

Mr. Cosby got a lot of flak for complaining about children who couldn't speak standard English.

Though the store's employees are mostly locals, they are required to speak standard, or Tokyo, Japanese.

Gone are the days when everyone in a novel, from sahib to servant, spoke standard British English.