Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.
One knows so well the popular idea of health: the English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unbeatable.
The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
I'm not the least bit polished, I come from a blue collar background and I never thought I could feel comfortable around the English.
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.
Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.
If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in English class.
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
If you can speak English, and you can get a place on a proper course at a proper university, you can come to study in Britain.
I've dubbed for my roles in Hindi, English, and Italian. Therefore, I'm used to the process. But, dubbing is hard, especially when you are dubbing for a prominent actor.
