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...third-generation Mexican-American immigrants speak only English. And yet even mainstream media tend to make the mistake of equating Latino with Spanish speaking. One of our columnists, Gregory Rodriguez, likes to make the point that nobody would ever think of scolding Rudy Giuliani for not speaking fluent Italian, but everyone seems surprised that the Latino mayor of Los Angeles speaks broken Spanish, but they shouldn...
Evidently, this whole story is as ambiguous as Federico Fellini’s “8½” or the nature of the Mona Lisa “smile.” Iran moves from chapter to chapter, with clever rhetoric, cash-fluent promises, and hideous lies. Teheran is an actor playing on the edge in a genre as sensitive as nuclear proliferation. Hopefully, none of the protagonists will end this play with a bloody catharsis on a stage famous for endless crimson-blemished sands...
Back in Seattle, though, the Gateses show less patience. They run the foundation like a business. They are remarkably fluent in the science of public health ("I suspect Bill Gates knows more about the molecular biology of mosquitoes than 95% of the doctors in the world," says Kim). And both use the language of business to describe the human experience. "There is no better return on investment than saving the life of a newborn," Melinda told reporters at a November press conference...
Still, Filipino teachers continue to clamor for positions in the U.S., and they're attractive candidates: they're highly educated--many have advanced degrees--they have tons of classroom experience and most are fluent in English. "We mainly had to make sure their English was intelligible to our kids," says Duque. "So I'd ask them about their favorite movie or their favorite actor. I tried to give them questions they didn't expect." In the end, Duque hired 109 new teachers...
...Slang and Unconventional English. Flummoxed? Unless you happen to be a British teenager, it will take you a brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian and English street slang, enriched by borrowings from black urban America and Grime, a form of London hip-hop. It's spoken in schools and clubs, on street corners and all over the Internet - anywhere, in fact, where kids enjoy mastering...