Though not explicitly stated, that feat implies that Wimsey spoke a fluent and unaccented German.

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

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.

The epitaph on his tombstone in Göttingen are the famous lines he spoke at the conclusion of his retirement address to the Society of German Scientists and Physicians in the fall of 1930.

German scholar Boris Barth, in contrast to Steigmann-Gall, implies that Doehring did not actually use the term, but spoke only of ' betrayal '.

German sociologist Johann Plenge spoke of the rise of a " National Socialism " in Germany within what he termed the " ideas of 1914 " that were a declaration of war against the " ideas of 1789 " ( the French Revolution ).

He reportedly spoke several languages, including Hebrew, Croatian, German, Italian, and Yiddish.

About 92 % of the population spoke German as their first language.

The Galatians were still speaking the Galatian language ( Gaulish ) in the time of St. Jerome ( 347 – 420 AD ), who wrote that the Galatians of Ancyra and the Treveri of Trier ( in what is now the German Rhineland ) spoke the same language ( Comentarii in Epistolam ad Galatos, 2. 3, composed c. 387 ).

A curious fact is that Luther spoke a dialect which had minor importance in the German language of that time.

His powerful memory enabled him to dispense with the manuscript on which most German professors relied, and he spoke extemporaneously, referring only occasionally to a few names and dates written on a slip of paper.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

The most controversial cuts were the scenes involving Otto, initially a recurring character, who had a thin Adolf Hitler-esque moustache and spoke with a German accent, shouting accusations of " racial impurity " at people whose conceptions were similar to Brian's ( Roman centurion rape of native Judean women ), and other Nazi-based phrases.

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

She spoke French, the court language of the age, but never bothered to learn to write German or Swedish correctly.

Fencing coach Andre Spitzer, who spoke fluent German, and shooting coach Kehat Shorr, the senior member of the Israeli delegation, had a brief conversation with German officials while standing at the second-floor window of the besieged building, with two kidnappers holding guns on them.

The Nazis also spoke of enlarging the then-established Greater German Reich into a " Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation " ( Grossgermanisches Reich Deutscher Nation ) by gradually annexing all the historically Germanic countries and regions of Europe ( Flanders, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden etc.

He often traveled to Europe, and spoke French, German, Russian, and Italian.

Upper Silesia, in 1945, had a considerable number of Roman Catholic mixed bilingual inhabitants that spoke both German and Polish dialects, and their Polish linguistic skills were solid enough for them to be allowed to remain in the area.

Similarly, German nationalists spoke of a stab in the back having cost them the loss of World War I.

The control tower gave him immediate take-off permission, and the clean roar of the engine that took him off the rough strip spoke well of the skill of Donovan.

Macro spoke well of Caligula to Tiberius, attempting to quell any ill will or suspicion the emperor felt towards Caligula.

William and his nobles spoke and conducted court in Norman French, in England as well as in Normandy.

While it may well be the case that the people of the western stream spoke a language belonging to a wider Eastern Bantu division, it is a puzzle which remains to be resolved that they spoke a language most closely related to the languages just mentioned, all of which are today spoken in southeastern Africa.

Upon arriving in San Diego, California, Mihdhar and Hazmi were to train as pilots, but spoke English poorly and did not do well with flight lessons.

During this period, Gandhi claimed to be a " highly orthodox Hindu " and in January 1921 during a speech at a temple in Vadtal, he spoke of the relevance of non-cooperation to Hindu Dharma, " At this holy place, I declare, if you want to protect your ' Hindu Dharma ', non-cooperation is first as well as the last lesson you must learn up.

It is generally agreed by most that the historical Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic, as well as Hebrew.

Christians who believe in the accuracy of the New Testament, would accept that " salvation is from the Jews ", since " those are the very words that Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman at the well ".

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.

This final model, sold by Kenner Toys and dubbed the " Knight Rider Voice Car ", spoke electronically ( actual voice of William Daniels ), featured a detailed interior and a Michael Knight action figure as well.

However, the story may well be apocryphal, as it can only be traced to the 16th century, and, in the time of Edward I, the English aristocracy spoke Norman French, not English ( some versions of the legend include lack of knowledge in both languages as a requirement, and one reported version has the very specific phrase " born on Welsh soil and speaking no other language ").

Lycia was well populated and flourished as a Persian satrapy ; moreover, they spoke mainly Lycian.

The Philistines, while an integral part of the Canaanite milieu, do not seem to have been ethnically homogenous with the Canaanites ; the Hurrians ( who spoke a language isolate ), Hittites ( Indo-European speakers ), as well as the Semitic Aramaeans, Moabites, and Ammonites, are also considered " distinct " from generic Canaanites / Amorites, in scholarship or in tradition ( although in the Biblical Book of Nations, " Heth ", Hittites are a son of Canaan, despite the fact that it has been proven beyond doubt that the Hittites spoke an Indo-European language ).

By the 1980s, fewer than 20 % of Māori spoke the language well enough to be classed as native speakers.

He spoke English fluently ( as well as four other foreign languages ) and as a naval officer of the old school, he respected Great Britain's Royal Navy despite the rivalry between the two nations.

The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek and refused to speak Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents such as the Rosetta Stone.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's family were Anglophiles, and while he wasn't as fluent as he pretended to be, he spoke English well enough to travel to London.

Like Thomas, she spoke French and Latin and they got along well enough for her to accept his daughter Anne as a maid of honour.

Even the caustic critic Theodore Martin ( who was usually virulently hostile to Dickens ), spoke well of the book, noting it was " finely felt, and calculated to work much social good ".

Crockett spoke “ mainly to the subject of Texan independence ,” as well as Washington politics.

Over scenes from groups such as the Squat Theatre and the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Fassbinder spoke passages from Antonin Artaud as well as his own commentary.

*" As he ( Diomedes ) spoke he sprang from his chariot, and his armour rang so fiercely about his body that even a brave man might well have been scared to hear it.