Otherwise, make it clear from the outset that you would prefer to speak in English.
The policy required Filipino-American employees to speak in English except when speaking to a patient with other language needs or during break time.
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"Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English, " he said.
In my experience a great degree of tolerance is shown by Welsh speakers who, contrary to myth, will always speak English in the company of English monoglots however small a minority they may be within a group.
Your physicians should be able to speak to you in plain English and answer your questions.
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This, after all, is a country where one in five people - 19% - speak a language other than English in their home.
But former Labour minister Frank Field, co-chairman of the cross-party balanced migration group, said Mr Cameron was on the "right course" in requiring all those wishing to settle in the UK to speak basic English and making it "much tougher" for those working in the UK to eventually gain citizenship.
Like the rest of AHS, the Medical Center specializes in providing culturally competent care through trained "patient navigators" who collectively speak seven Asian languages in addition to English.
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Most French officials speak English and studied in British or American colleges.
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She had finished high school in Vietnam and could speak some English by now.
It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your 20s.
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She can also speak to you in a rather pleasant English accent.
Born in India, Mrs Aggarwal-Singh arrived in England in 1981 unable to speak English, but a decade later she started a 14-year position at Northampton College.
Today most young Indians speak only English or are bilingual in English and Afrikaans, though they may continue to chat at home in a kind of pidgin English larded with Indian and Zulu.
Martins grew up in Campinas and learned to speak English with missionaries at age 12.
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Although he cannot speak Amharic, he communicates with Bisaw in English.
Under the proposals, parents will be required to take responsibility for their foreign-born children learning English at home, and being able to speak English will be made mandatory in a greater number of public sector jobs.
That is like saying "let's create a Jewish state in England, and all the English can go live in Ireland since they both speak the same language!"
There is little question that people living in America should know how to speak English.
Ninety-seven percent of third generation and higher Hispanics living in Southern California actually prefer to speak English at home.
No one in my group seemed able to speak any English (or Cantonese).
After raising two young children who speak French, Greek and English, and learning to speak Greek herself, she says she has never in her 12 years in the city felt unwelcome in Athens.
When Mr. Pellizzoni moved to London from his native Italy in 1998, he was unable to speak English.
Customer service was also criticised, with leaflets only printed in English, when many tenants do not speak the language.
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No one at the space center seemed to speak English, so one of our handlers stepped in to translate.
The children of Somalis growing up in Birmingham speak Brummie, not some Somali inflected version of English.
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Or will ministers at least set a target date for its implementation so we can prepare the ground for the day when we can all go abroad and speak other languages rather than simply speaking more slowly and loudly in English in the hope "Johnny foreigner" will understand?
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