Some who were not fluent in English found it easier to use an easily spelled equivalent to their birth names.
Here we were again, exploring new territory, headed to a place where we knew a few customs and words but were not fluent.
Forty-three percent of foreign-born Hispanic children, 21percentt of the second generation and only 5percentt in the third generation or higher said they were not fluent in English.
He said that all the students' parents had computer access and that only two had told him that they were not fluent in English; one posts on the blog anyway, one sends her responses to him privately, by e-mail.
(Though if Iannis and his daughter were not fluent in Italian, a language for which the doctor has always had an inflated regard, and therefore able to have all their disputes with Corelli, the novel would not have been possible).
Even during the Occupy protests it was really tough to find out what was going on on the ground for those who were not fluent in Chinese," said Grundy, adding that the aim is "to start with simple local news, and investigative pieces about Hong Kong".
