It requires a laptop, but it will translate spoken English into one of 12 languages.
''I suspect the locals had low expectations, '' he says in perfect, if soft-spoken English.
There are lessons in spoken English, etiquette and even on the use of a fork and knife.
But, overall, the pronunciation and prosody of spoken English seems to vary as much as ever across the country of its birth.
Koko is said to understand some 2, 000 words of spoken English.
Training will include the proper way to carve meat, serve cigars and pour champagne, as well as improving the level of spoken English, and the way complaints are dealt with.
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.
Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English.
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He walks himself around a nearby park when employees go outside to smoke, responds to commands spoken in English, German and Polish, and has even managed to win over employees who suffer allergies and a fear of dogs.
Rhea Williams, chairman of the Queen's English Society Committee, said standards of spoken and written English were falling and the signs were "visible everywhere".
From the Elizabethan English spoken in Chesapeake Bay to the Basque in Elko, Nevada, America's ethnic melting pot refuses categorically to dissolve.
Its self-consciously surreal libretto by Luisa Costa Gomes includes arias in Portuguese and a spoken part in English for the elegantly reserved dancer, Lucinda Childs.
The Eastern Shore, long a relatively isolated patch of America's east coast best known for the odd quasi-Elizabethan English spoken by its inhabitants, became an increasingly popular weekend and second-home destination.
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Spanish is by far the most popular non-English language spoken at home with roughly 34 million speakers nationwide.
Controversially, he remarked that he had been "flabbergasted to go to Peterborough and see ghettos where virtually no English is spoken".
The respondents said agents recommended the UK because of its attitudes and policies towards asylum seekers and the fact that English was spoken.
Mary, a charming and gently-spoken woman who speaks English with the soft lilt of the native Gaelic-speaker - has a photograph of them all in Edinburgh: some haven't seen one another since.
Today, the sad reality is that if you're born poor, if your parents didn't go to college, if you don't know your father, if English isn't spoken at home then the odds are stacked against you.
Somali is a close second to English as the most-spoken first language in Moss Side schools.
German, French and English are all widely enough spoken to create a good pool of potential workers.
When you fly on Emirates Airlines, the pilots need several full breaths to list the languages spoken by the staff, usually including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Afrikaans, Bulgarian and half-dozen others.
During our conversation the manager explained he was born and raised on the large island of Madagascar (where French, English and Malagasy languages are spoken), off the southeastern coast of Africa, and later attended a Paris university before joining the U.S. chip firm.
The debate about proper ways to use the English language occurs wherever English is read, written or spoken.
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Kallon had previously spoken about his dream of playing in the English Premier League but it seems the Leone Star has new goals in mind.
But the words can come in a phonetic English form, Chinese characters and even spoken form.
By 1940 Jewish parents and their children at the southwestern corner of New Jersey's largest city talked to one another in an American English that sounded more like the language spoken in Altoona or Binghamton than like the dialects famously spoken across the Hudson by our Jewish counterparts in the five boroughs.
Safety instructions are screamed at you in four languages Dutch, English, French and German each spoken with such a terrible accent that one wonders if the flight attendants have a mother tongue at all.
English, Maori and Samoan are the three most spoken languages in New Zealand.
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