... good English, was an intelligent chap, very interested and knowledgeable about every subject, history, art, and culture.
I went to visit Haghartsin church, in a lush forest. I walked all the way from ...
... of the Armenian genocide, and I asked my neighbour. He made sure with the driver, then replied to me in English. Just to keep the conversation going, I asked him where he was from. I didn't expect any ...
... good luck in English and let me go. I found another corner and drank on my nice cool beer, hiding the bottle in a bandana – this was what the law required. ...
... the rules of lean management – didn't know, or didn't understand, my request. Two elderly men felt called into question and did their best to help me. One could even speak a little bit of stammering English. ...
... but wished the border had never existed in that place as they all felt their country was indeed Russia. The young man who could speak English expressed his strong views without resentment, his composure ...
... devoted to the cultural heritage of post-industrial Upper Silesia. I first gave it a distracted look, but I realised that all around the stair shaft there were more panels. The photos had English captions ...
... assets ranging from coal-mines, spa resorts, factories, lands and much more. Prince Hans Heinrich XVII got married to an English aristocrat noted for her great beauty, but their marriage was not a happy ...
... admitted he was playing truant. To make up I made him revise his English as we walked on the road. He didn't seem too keen to learn, but I explained that a professional English-speaking guide fetches more ...
... a child who could only speak two words of English. It tickled my spirit of adventure; it was just what would make the trip worthwhile. The Spanish girls changed some money for me, and I would be ready ...
... or animals. The panels scattered along the path were rather more informative explaining interesting facts regarding the cave, but an apology for an English translation was only able to make me smile and ...
Leaving Amedzofe in the morning I walked down to Vane and from there I found a motorbike to Fume junction. The driver was a French-speaking Togolese who had no English, basically because this part of Ghana ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...