Increasing efforts to make all Britons fluent in English is surely a good idea.
I'm not white inside, I'm not really fluent in English, I have black kids.
The candidates should be fluent in English, a good knowledge of either Russian or Uzbek would be an asset.
Fluent in English, though little known inside the Clinton camp, he likes Americans.
Some of the dining room staff are not fluent in English, but their solicitous attitude is more than sufficient compensation.
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This will require some 25, 000 troops drawn from neutral nations, as well as perhaps 1, 000 Cambodian translators fluent in English or French.
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There would be intensive immersion programs for children not fluent in English.
Deng's itinerant upbringing means he is fluent in English, Arabic, and Dinka.
She has a BA in Communication Studies and minor in International Studies from Virginia Tech and is fluent in English, Dari and Farsi.
By the time she left Japan four years later he was fluent in English and was picking up French and German as well.
His biography spanned Canada's divides: he was born in Montreal, was equally fluent in English and French, and forged his political career in Toronto.
And as a brilliant linguist, fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian and obviously his native Portuguese, he crossed all barriers with United's cosmopolitan set-up.
In contrast, younger men without a degree receive a 13% wage premium for being fluent in English, compared to 40% for younger men with a degree.
For example, older men without an undergraduate degree receive a 53% wage premium for being fluent in English, compared to 28% for older men with an undergraduate degree.
Chen might hire another twenty-something who was fluent in English.
Indonesia by peaceful election replaced an incumbent president with a retired military man, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is fluent in English, was trained in management in the U.S. and has completed Ph.
In each household, the interviewers (all Iraqis fluent in English as well as Arabic) asked about births and deaths that had occurred since January 1st 2002 among people who had lived in the house for more than two months.
To study for a doctorate, even in fine art or the poetry of the Tang dynasty, students need to show fluent literacy in English.
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Pierre was brought up fluent in both English and French, a big asset for a politician in bilingual Canada.
Through Eternity tours caters to the American market, using only guides who are fluent in the English language ensuring nothing gets lost in translation.
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Beginning at 8am my very knowledgeable guide, who was also completely fluent in the English language, whisked me away (on foot) as we proceeded to walk through the Forum, into the Colosseum and over to the Pantheon.
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"I am very sorry that you traveled all this way, but you have to leave, " their hooded leader explained politely, yet firmly, in fluent English.
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Moreover, the polyglot Mr Strauss-Kahn, fluent in German, English and Spanish, and with a (third) wife, Anne Sinclair, who until 1997 had her own political chat-show on television, was the perfect man to smooth-talk journalists and placate suspicious foreigners.
Within a couple of months, he daydreamed aloud in accented but fluent English, he would unveil the first Russian Formula One team, in Moscow's Red Square.
As a fluent English speaker in a country where that is decidedly not the norm, I was dreading a boring lesson.
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But those seeking to scrap bilingual education say that Hispanic youngsters should be encouraged to become completely fluent in written and spoken English if they are to have an equal chance in the jobs market.
Johnny Weissmuller, though, was hardly the Tarzan of the books, described as an English lord fluent in six languages.
Fluent in French, Arabic, English and Portuguese -- and quickly catching up in Japanese -- Ghosn is the quintessential international businessman.
The company, which employs around 500 people at its base in Duncairn Gardens, is recruiting staff fluent in 15 European languages as well as English.
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