At the time of his death he was working on a translation of the Gospel of St. John into English.

Though native speakers of English have been working in non-English speaking countries in this capacity for years, it was not until the last twenty-five years or so that there was any widespread focus on training particularly for this field.

His father, Donald Walton Lynch, was a research scientist working for the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and his mother, Edwina " Sunny " Lynch ( née Sundholm ), was an English language tutor whose grandfather's parents had immigrated to the United States from Finland in the 19th century.

Italian and English are also spoken as working languages, and are used in secondary and university education.

Thompson's most influential work was and remains The Making of the English Working Class, published in 1963 while he was working at the University of Leeds.

As a result of his extensive education, Hoxha was fluent in French and had a working knowledge of Italian, Serbian, English and Russian.

The French delegate to the League of Nations vetoes the use of Esperanto as its working language, leaving English and French.

English is also quite common due to the high number of anglophone expatriates and foreigners working in international institutions and in the bank sector.

In 1779 at age 16 he emigrated to London, where he learned English while working for his brother, George Astor, manufacturing musical instruments.

In his early twenties, Wedgwood began working with the most renowned English pottery-maker of his day, Thomas Whieldon, who eventually became his business partner in 1754.

A trade union ( British English ), labour union ( Canadian English ) or labor union ( American English ) is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, achieving higher pay, increasing the number of employees an employer hires, and better working conditions.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

The Soviet people and the working people of Germany have an interest in preventing the English war plan .”

English is sometimes spoken by many professionals and those working in the business or governmental sectors of society.

He was assisted in this by the other Secretaries and by translators for languages not his own ; all Secretaries were expected to speak English and French fluently, and have working knowledges of German and Spanish.

Clifford Cocks, an English mathematician working for the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, described an equivalent system in an internal document in 1973, but given the relatively expensive computers needed to implement it at the time, it was mostly considered a curiosity and, as far as is publicly known, was never deployed.

English is the main working language and is the mandatory first language in all schools here ..

The English railway pioneer George Stephenson spent much of his early engineering career working for the coal mines of County Durham.

The first working prototype of the modern self-propelled torpedo was created by a commission placed by Giovanni Luppis (), an Austrian naval officer from Fiume ( now called Rijeka ), a port city of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy ( modern Croatia ), and Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a town factory.

English was added as a working language in 1994.

Probably the most well-known linguist working with a truly Humboldtian perspective writing in English today is Anna Wierzbicka who has published a wide number of compartaive works on semantic universals and conceptual distinctions in language.

In East Timor, which was an Indonesian province from 1975 to 1999, Indonesian is recognised by the constitution as one of the two working languages ( the other being English ), alongside the official languages of Tetum and Portuguese.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The mayor of the town taught them English and French.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

These agents were to ascertain the difference between English and French goods, and the prices charged the Indians.

a collection of English, French and German coins, valued at $500 ; ;

It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.

The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, French and American dances mixed into the stew.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

He and Widor collaborated on a new edition of Bach's organ works, with detailed analysis of each work in three languages ( English, French, German ).

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1959 – Bruce French, English cricketer

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

" Artiste " ( the French for artist ) is a variant used in English only in this context.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

The English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.