... 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, ...
... 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 ...
... underground ticket.
There is a bank counter, but it’s not clear if they exchange money. I ask a few customers in line, in English, but there is absolutely no response, at most a very blank look from ...
... but mostly understandable English, in spite of an accent that sometimes called on you to guess a missing word.
He launched into comparisons with fast car models equipped with inadequate tyres to explain ...
... is an English-Australian guy, quite reserved and often focused on his netbook writing his travel diary, but I managed to strike up a conversation with him a couple times in the kitchen. He’s a bit introvert ...
... for walnut is so-and-so. Besides, a few words in Italian, a few in English amid many more in Romanian reveal that she’s used to dealing with a lingo that would put many others off. She also shows an address ...
... fluent English, not without an accent, in spite of her 12 years in the US living on a private island off the coast of Florida.
“Why did you come back?”, I ventured to ask prying into her private story ...
... I can feel the elevation of 5,360 m in my body with a strange indefinable sensation.
We descend and halt at Pang where a few nomads' tents are pitched. I have a vegetable soup and meet an English ...
... to take leave of the monk who only communicates with few words in English, when Albert a bit cheekily asks him if he would show us his cell. He agrees and takes us down the steep descent, then up again ...
... landing in Jammu Tawi from Delhi to Srinagar. The plane is already half full with people. While waiting I had read the news about the Srinagar blast that is reported on the first page of all English-language ...
... to me. He's intelligent and speaks English, passing on interesting information.
We have coffee together, then he takes me to see the temple where the Sacred Book is kept during the night, then the huge ...
... lived two contiguous days without interruption.
In the carriage, an upper-class Indian family converse in a monotonous English, that sounds as if they pronounced it with a potato in the mouth. With wide ...
... turn into the day’s nightmare. This man, muttering some words of English, says he wants to take us to his house; he wants to hold us for lunch too. We excuse ourselves, we are in a hurry, Sarah has to ...