... it to helping countrymen with their English, as well as foreigners with their Chinese.
His help was certainly beneficial to me, as it was to other young learners who even sent him small gifts in gratitude ...
... around as divas. Or the boy who spoke with his mother on the phone and took this self-complacent tone of voice. He the addressed me in English during the call just to boast of my presence – hardly any ...
... little English. The Chinese, Fascist. No democracy”. I feel deeply touched by these words because I know they express a truth and this state of affairs is costing people a lot of suffering.
I jump on ...
... in the evening and had tea together. Later I met my real tent companions, an English and a US couple. After a bowl of soup, we realised that rain had set in and the night was getting colder and colder. ...
... topic in any Chinese conversation. In fact, when you need a neutral subject, the English may talk about the weather; the Chinese definitely talk about money. We tend to have a squeamish attitude about ...
... poor English as to be hardly intelligible, apart from laughable. In any case, most explanations are no work of great scholarship: they often provide such trifling details as the dimensions of rooms.
For ...
... me into the flat. A youthful woman with a smiling face, she comes across as kind and motherly.
She communicates in clear-cut English where rolling r’s trill unexpectedly here and there to remind you the ...
... against the enforcement of rules that were not made known in English. On the other, the two steel-faced collectors peppering their now very angry speech with the word Bulgarian made me think they were ...
... on the phone had in fact ended the call with a perplexed expression. She reported the man was not at all keen to take me as a guest because he speaks no English. I could understand his hesitation on that ...
... as well. He was scared, so I laughingly chased him around wielding my mock syringe. While we were there joking I was joined by a group of students who wanted to correct some English grammar exercises. ...
... on her back. I am speechless at their good looks and surprised at their correct English.
Another natural highlight of this country are birds, whose shapes and plumage are so new to me, that even the ...
... he was the first to open to dialogue, a little in English, but mostly in what Arabic he picked up during his trips to Sudan and by receiving a Muslim education, perhaps. There is also an assistant and ...
... we’d been taken on board the vehicle. Masafent is quite a character. A slender man in his late forties perhaps, he doesn’t speak a word of English, so any attempt at communication is obviously thwarted ...
... showing me around for pure sense of hospitality, without being able to speak much English. We were later joined by a would-be guide that stalked tourists. He didn’t mean any harm, mind you, but was indeed ...
... that has required him to retire to the calm of this village from the town of Bahar Dar. Mumbling quasi incomprehensible sentences that he sounds very convinced are as good as the Queen’s English, he ...
... having broken the ice and acquired sufficient confidence in his English, was keen to explain the ethnic, and consequently linguistic mosaic of Ethiopia.
He, for one, belongs to the prevalent Oromic group, ...
... was no less flabbergasted at the man’s behaviour. This was a businessman travelling to Togo to sell, I believe, furniture. He was completely hopeless at English, so the air hostess’s question “Tea or coffee, ...
... basically because they are not required for the humdrum. Even the colleagues working in the foreign trade department rely on a rather rudimentary knowledge of English, but in order to take a bunch of provincial ...
... interrupt, even if their English is considerably more potent.
We get a room together in Rilong, the village from where the exploration of the three gullies can be made. The weather is rather cold and ...
... there. China must look as a united, harmonious country where everybody is happy to live.
The English-speaking lady might just be sincerely unaware of what has been going on, but I seem to be the one ...