Pulley Bey spoke no English.

The cagey Pulley Bey, who spoke no English, had taken the passport so that Diane couldn't leave the country without his approval.

In his mind he spoke simultaneously the English sentence and the Martian word and felt closer grokking.

It is possible that the majority of Irish convicts either did not speak English, or spoke English " indifferently ".

Massoud spoke Persian, Pashto, Urdu and French and had good English reading skills.

The second was the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman.

The English Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles ( 1855 – 1931 ) reasoned on internal textual grounds that the book was edited by someone who spoke no Hebrew and who wished to promote a different theology from John's.

Another compounding issue were the varying accents of the four lead actors: Chow Yun Fat is from Hong Kong and spoke Cantonese natively and Michelle Yeoh is from Malaysia and spoke English.

69. 4 % spoke English, 6. 9 % Spanish, 3. 2 % Chinese or Mandarin, 3. 0 % Portuguese, 2. 9 % French Creole, 2. 3 % French, 1. 5 % Korean, and 1. 0 % Italian as their first language.

The children spoke only English though their parents were bilingual in English and Welsh, and David Thomas gave Welsh lessons at home.

The companies often favored the West Indian workers because they spoke English and were sometimes better educated than their Honduran counterparts.

The term " Hun " is also used by Catholics in Northern Ireland as a derogatory term to refer to Northern Irish Protestants, most of whom are descended from English and Lowland Scottish settlers, who historically spoke English and Scots respectively ; both Germanic languages.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

When talking to FBI interrogators Russell Fincher and Marty Mahon, he seemed " genuinely friendly " and spoke chiefly in English, calling for a translator only when necessary.

The translations were hilarious for the audience as Ivan spoke very basic English.

95. 9 % spoke English and 2. 1 % Spanish as their first language.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

He learned English as a child from a Dutch family in Nagasaki and so always spoke English with a Dutch accent.

Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

His father was a teacher of German, and he also spoke that language fluently.

Humphrey was loyal to Guy and spoke Arabic fluently, so Richard used him as a translator and negotiator.

He spoke the local Punic language fluently but he was also educated in Latin and Greek, which he spoke with a slight accent.

He was also an educated man, fluently spoke several languages and actively supported Western court culture and chivalric ethos.

The American historian Retha M. Warnicke writes that Anne was " the perfect woman courtier ... her carriage was graceful and her French clothes were pleasing and stylish ; she danced with ease, had a pleasant singing voice, played the lute and several other musical instruments well, and spoke French fluently ... A remarkable, intelligent, quick-witted young noblewoman ... that first drew people into conversation with her and then amused and entertained them.

Brandt spoke Norwegian fluently, and retained a close relationship with Norway.

Around the turn of the 20th century Anenecuilco was an indigenous Nahuatl speaking community ; there are eyewitness accounts stating that Emiliano Zapata spoke Nahuatl fluently.

A most proficient linguist, he spoke German, English, French, Spanish and Italian fluently, and read Portuguese and Catalan.

Although Dutch sources have no data about his whereabouts in those years, it is known that De Ruyter spoke Irish fluently.

Axel Munthe had a multi-national character and spoke several languages ( Swedish, English, French, Italian fluently, and German at least passably ), growing up in Sweden, attending medical school and opening his first practice in France.

He spoke German, Hungarian, Croatian, English, Spanish, French and Latin fluently.

Michael spoke both French and English fluently.

Fitzgerald qualified as a barrister from the King's Inns of Ireland and spoke French fluently.

She spoke French and Italian fluently, was skilled at Greek and Latin, and also enjoyed music and drama.

One reason for the trust he enjoyed from King George was the fact that they could converse in German, which he spoke fluently.

He was a master of the learned languages, spoke and wrote French fluently, and understood English, Italian and Dutch.

Mary's education was excellent ; she spoke French and Italian fluently, had a good knowledge of Latin and, later, mastered English.

Marconi's father was Italian, and both men spoke Italian fluently.

Ōyama, who spoke and wrote several European languages fluently, also liked European-style architecture.

Campbell-Bannerman spoke French, German and Italian fluently, and every summer he and his wife spent a couple of months in Europe, usually in France and at the spa town of Marienbad in Bohemia.

He learned Latin so well that he made notes in Latin and spoke it fluently.

Tirpitz spoke English fluently and was sufficiently at home in Great Britain that he sent his two daughters to Cheltenham Ladies ' College.