Second, the agency ran a " Speakers and Specialists Program ", sending Americans abroad for various public speaking and technical assistance roles.

Speakers have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ted Sorensen, literature critic James Wood, author Claire Messud, Michael Kelly of the Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Law Professors Charles Fried and Lani Guinier, author Samantha Power, Harvard stem cell biologist Doug Melton, philosopher & bio-ethicist Frances Kamm, poet Louise Glück, former ambassadors Peter W. Galbraith and Charles Stith, Mary Beth Cahill, free software pioneer Richard Stallman, and various musical groups.

Today, Sweet Lou is an integral part of the Dodgers ’ Community Relations efforts and a member of the Dodgers Speakers ’ Bureau, while remaining active with various charities in Southern California and nationally, as well.

Speakers of Czech and Slovak usually understand both languages in their written and spoken form, thus constituting a pluricentric language, though some dialects or heavily accented speech in either language might present difficulties to speakers of the other ( in particular, Czech speakers may find Eastern Slovak dialects difficult to comprehend ).

Speakers of Metropolitan French and even of other Canadian dialects sometimes have minor difficulties understanding Acadian French.

Speakers of some regional dialects or rural speakers often use the latter, shorter forms for both cases: " a házba vagyok " ( incorrect: I'm in ( to ) the house ).

Speakers of languages and dialects without the sound sometimes have difficulty producing or distinguishing it from similar sounds, especially if they have had no chance to acquire it in childhood, and typically replace it with a voiceless alveolar fricative, voiceless dental stop, or a voiceless labiodental fricative ( known respectively as th-alveolarization, th-stopping, and th-fronting.

Speakers of different Laz dialects have trouble understanding each other, and often prefer to communicate in the local official language.

Although some linguists consider them as three different languages, they are commonly known as dialects of the same Ch ’ ol language Speakers of Tilá and Tumbalá can usually understand each other.

Speakers of Appalachian English have no trouble understanding standard English, but even native speakers of other dialects can find it somewhat impenetrable ( compare the similar situation of Glasgow English and London English ), and foreigners may have some trouble understanding it, while others may find it easier to comprehend.

Speakers of Metropolitan French, and even of other Canadian dialects, have some difficulty understanding Acadian French.

Speakers of DAR dialects therefore appear to have ( put somewhat simplistically ) two kinds of glottal stop: one for DAR and one for word-final / t /.

Speakers of other German dialects that do not have these sounds tend to perceive these sounds as being ö and ü respectively.

Speakers of other dialects hear these as if they were " b ", " d " and " g " respectively.

By convention Speakers are normally addressed in Parliament as " Mr Speaker ", and their deputies as " Mr Deputy Speaker ".

By convention, Speakers are normally addressed in Parliament as Mister Speaker, if a man, or Madam Speaker, if a woman.

By convention, Speakers are normally addressed in Parliament as " Mister Speaker ", for a male, and " Madame Speaker ", for a female.

Although Speakers normally carry the courtesy title ' the Honourable ', Jenkins has said his personal preference is that it not be used.

Speakers are normally elevated to the House of Lords when they retire, and the Government has said it considered this a " formality ".

Any member of the general public could enter a Speakers ' Corner booth, deposit a coin ( normally one dollar ), then record a short video segment on any topic.

Speakers of the local language do not utter such expressions and note that they are unacceptable to language learners.

Speakers of American English do not refer to these items as " candy ".

* Speakers may not velarize in coda positions as most native speakers do.

Speakers form and establish a pidgin language when two or more speakers who do not speak a common language form an intermediate, third language.

Speakers of Southern languages and Sinhalese, which do differentiate and, do not have difficulty making this distinction.

Speakers and writers frequently do not consider it necessary to justify their positions on a particular use, taking it for granted that a given use is correct or incorrect.

Speakers do not always distinguish between Standard English and the English of formal registers.

For example in the United Kingdom the tradition is that the Speaker and Deputy Speakers do not vote and Sinn Féin MPs never take their seats, so these members can be discounted from the opposition numbers.

Speakers of majority languages can and do learn minority languages, through the large number of courses available.

Speakers of Lakota and Dakota do not understand either of the two Nakoda languages ( Assiniboine and Stoney ).

* Speakers do not confuse of with, ( e. g., Yale with jail ).

BAES also provides teaching in English for Speakers of Other Languages ( ESOL ) for the many inhabitants of the city who do not speak English as a mother-tongue.

Speakers in conversation often do not use complete sentences or even complete words to converse.

Speakers who do not control these differences make it very difficult for others to understand them.

Speakers of Sri Lankan English are often incapable of producing certain sounds such as, and use the same sound for both and as they do not bite their lower lip for or round their lips for.

Speakers of the Akkadian language seem to have already been present in Mesopotamia at the dawn of the historical period, and soon achieved preeminence with the first Dynasty of Kish and numerous localities to the north of Sumer, where rulers with Akkadian names had already established themselves by the 3rd millennium BC.

Speakers of British English and American English sometimes have this problem, which was alluded to in George Bernard Shaw's statement " England and America are two countries separated by a common language ".

Speakers of a language have in their heads a set of rules for using that language.

Speakers at Techkirti have included APJ Abdul Kalam, Vladimir Voevodsky, Dougulas OSheroff, Oliver Smithies and Richard Stallman.

Speakers of Quebec French from outside Montreal usually have other names to identify their speech, such as Magoua in Trois-Rivières, and Chaouin south of Trois-Rivières.

Speakers of North-Western Indo-European might have arrived with the Corded Ware culture around 3200 / 3100 BC.

Speakers of Old East Norse would have said dansk tunga (" Danish tongue ") or norrønt mál (" Nordic speech ").

In fact, former American Psychological Association presidents Robert Perloff and Nicholas Cummings have both been Keynote Speakers at recent NARTH conferences and have strongly decried the efforts of the major professional associations, in their opinion, to marginalize reparative therapists and allegedly promote gay activism instead of scientific impartiality.

Speakers using such techniques can reproduce sound with a wide directivity pattern ( paradoxically somewhat like a point source ) and have been used in some computer speaker designs and bookshelf loudspeakers.

Previous Speakers have been minority leaders ( when the majority party changes, as they are already the House party leader, and as the minority leader is usually their party's nominee for speaker ), or majority leaders ( upon departure of the current speaker in the majority party ), assuming that the party leadership hierarchy is followed.

Speakers tended to have very short tenures ; for example, from 1839 to 1863 there were eleven Speakers, only one of whom served for more than one term.

Nevertheless, the United States government takes the place of the Speaker in the line of succession seriously enough that, for example, since shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Speakers have used military jets to fly back and forth to their districts and for other travel.

Speakers which use these mechanical crossovers have some advantages in sound quality despite the difficulties of designing and manufacturing them, and despite the inevitable output limitations.

Speakers have included Stephen Ambrose, Benazir Bhutto, Harry Browne, Russell Kirk, Harvey Mansfield, Charles Murray, Ralph Nader, P. J.

Speakers of Old English ( OE ) considered each noun to have a grammatical gender — masculine, feminine or neuter.

* Speakers tend to have difficulty pronouncing the letter.

* Speakers often have difficulty with the following phonemes, which may depend in some cases upon where in Vietnam they are originally from:

Speakers have included Darl McBride and Rob Enderle.

Speakers have persuasive effect not only by the reasoning of their words, but by their cadence and tone – the musical qualities of their voice serve as " the commentary of the emotions upon the propositions of the intellect ," as Spencer put it.

Speakers of Proto-Hungarian would have come into contact with Turkic peoples during the 7th or 8th century, in the context of the Turkic expansion, as is also evidenced by numerous Turkic loanwords in Proto-Hungarian.