"He said, 'Pop, we speak English, give me the money and we can buy things and sell them here, ' " his father recalled.
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We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language.
"We must encourage everyone to speak English, but we must not discriminate against those that speak other languages, " said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.
"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.
However, at times, their presentations involved company representatives pretending to speak English and we, politely, pretending to understand.
Later, in 1853, his father Charles Trevelyan told a parliamentary committee that some Indians now spoke purer English "than we speak ourselves".
In addition to the essay section, the Writing section of the SAT tests the deviation between standard written English and the way we actually speak the language.
"We identified problems with access to interpreting services for people who do not speak English as their first language and for those who are deaf, " Ms Drown said.
Then, when I was evacuated to Wales during the war, we spoke it virtually all the time because my aunt didn't speak much English, so I had to pick it up very quickly.
Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.
"I speak no Japanese at all, and she only speaks a little English, but we see it as an exciting challenge and proof of our faith, " he added.
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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