Fluency in English and Russian.

When did you begin studying English?

English is the world's second language.

My English teacher would say such a situation is a dire situation.

Now I get it, I understand why people would want to focus on English.

English you will see, this is jeans and tights, and an English expression the ability to share with the world what is going on in our own country.

And I want to remind you that the giants upon whose shoulders today's intelligentsia stand did not have to have English, they didn't have to pass an English test.

I find it extremely difficult to understand and learn English and this is why I don't use it a lot in writing. In fact, I use it rarely or link from other sources. A friend asked me to blog in English but that will be mission impossible!

A key property of a formal language is the level of difficulty required to decide whether a given word is in the language.

English is not my native language.

T I want to speak S I want to speak T perfect English. S perfect English.

I wanted to improve my Japanese pronunciation.

Can you speak English?

English is taught in most countries.

Here, I'm explaining how a computer uses the grammar of English to parse sentences, and here, there's a pause and the student has to reflect, understand what's going on and check the right boxes before they can continue.

Why English? In a single word Opportunity.

T I want to speak perfect English.

S I want to speak perfect English.

Is there someone here who speaks English?

Watch the video below with English subtitle

It's not English. It's noisy English.

Jay Walker on the world's English mania

Listen as Chinese students practice their English by screaming it.

25 percent of her grade is based on English.

I'll help you with your French, if you help me with my English.

Written in easy English, this book is suitable for beginners.

Jay Walker explains why two billion people around the world are trying to learn English. He shares photos and spine tingling audio of Chinese students rehearsing English the world's second language by the thousands.

Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Not likely.

Linguistic barriers will obstruct continental political debate and impede the creation of a truly European identity.

I'm not sure! Hopefully I'll have figured out how to get high school students to a good level of Arabic within four years.

The post goes into more details in English and in Arabic about the exact details of harassment.

And if it is why the white right wing are on the rise here. THEY CHANT EDL!

Language, on the other hand, has an intermediate level of entropy it's neither too rigid, nor is it too random.

Social Science in the Caucasus comments on data indicating the level of English and Russian language proficiency in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Mr Brown is up to the challenge, however he often has to put up with the students' often literal, creative interpretations of the English language.

College level programs in a foreign language usually include study of important works of the literature in that language, as well as the language itself.

United by the English language, similar democratic political institutions, and a shared passion for cricket, and divided by no significant issues of contention, India and Australia seem obvious candidates for the sort of benign relationship of which most diplomats dream.

Jay Walker How many people are trying to learn English worldwide?

For me, like millions of other people around the world today, English is an acquired language.

An Israeli blog, My Right Word, posted excerpts of the interview in English

If you are a Chinese student you start learning English in the third grade, by law.

But we didn't want to limit ourselves to English books or to novels, or to a small group of people.

Some learners learn quickly and reach a near native level of competence, but others learn slowly and get stuck at relatively early stages of acquisition, despite living in the country where the language is spoken for several years.

This kind of influence of the first language on the second is known as negative language transfer.

While the main problems related to intercultural and bilingual indigenous education now centre around the primary and secondary levels, significant progress has been made in recent years at the level of higher education.