words or terms that i cannot understand i used to use english, i prefer english. >> you prefer englishortant english is. what do you think about english? >> english is an important language because english is more, you can, you can communicate with other people through english, which is like foreign. because foreign can't speak our language. so we must learn english. >> ah, must learn english. >> it's been two hours since ruby began walking around, but she still wants to talk to more people in english. >> excuse me, sir. can you speak english. >> yes, ma'am. my english is very, very small amount. i learn to speak english, but, but i not decided meaning, but the smallest. >> if you have a chance or if you have an opportunity to study english again, do you want to study english again? >> yes. i want to study english. >> ruby is meeting and communicating with local people for the first time. she doesn't return to her dorm until late in the evening. >> so i'm very happy. i'm excited to be here today. i want to stay here longer than i expected. i already lived hear for two months. i love pe

the english language, they do what they like. as sir edward coke was leader of the opposition and during debate in parliament, king's prerogative, coke said magna carta is such a fellow, he will have no sovereign. even the king was limited by the preceptsf the magna carta. it was a turbulent century, civil war in the 1640s, 1649 the execution of charles i which brought into being the cromwellian commonwealth will you and i live in commonwealths, commonwealth of pennsylvania, commonwealth of virginia in the seventeenth century. after the cromwellian regime, the stewarts came back, struggles continue to in parliament, and historians call the glorious revolution which brought william and mary to the throne and put an end to the jamess and stewart and charless and as part of the constitutional settlement agreed to the english bill of rights. 1680, the bill of rights of england's prefigures, anticipates our bill of rights, and laid the two document side by side, you can see provisions of the english bill of rights, word for word over

so there should be thoroughly confused into american law after all they are english colonies. so that is part of the common language but in the 17th century the foundation was laid the early period to the revolutionary period. of davis case argued in 1761 with the risk of assistance to represent boston merchants who objected like a general search warrant they would not satisfy from today but they allowed officials to search your house or places to dismiss any time in the said this is not constitutional. there was no constitutional this point but making the case the we would recognize to be a constitutional case and decided with coke who had decided it case in 1610 pin or this language that's as after parliament it is nil and 40. but the doctrine never really took hold in but it was opposing the existence but in london with the government of the cabinet to make those excess of arguments at this point of the commentary on the law of england and says parliament makes law and calls the shots but did not recognize limitations in the past crazy laws and moral laws but they were the

[laughter] that is something the english language has been doing again ever since the english language with english language, making other parts of speech out of this fail. the bake sale was something. as they come into language, and the people who are god and the ones who carry on the language, there is not a lot you can do about them and a great course of events. as i said, i don't use them myself. i feel like i am trying to masquerade as someone who just graduated from college. and hasn't had a chance to die her hair. but it is inevitable. one word hello. i'm still not sure which part of speech it is. it is short for how well the period i queried it in something and i was persuaded it has its own t-shirt. we are going to have to get used to it. we permit them in "the new yorker" kind of gradually. but again, it's inevitable. this sale has happened. that's going to happen. there are a lot more that don't occur to me. it is not such a terrible thing to turning down in reverb. turning a verb into a noun is a little bit different and that is what is going on now. >> the last night and l

no english? english? do you speak english? nobody speaks english. okay. she ends up calling her son, and gives me the phone. 5:09 darcy on phone: tell us why this happened again for the second time in seven months. he blames the bad inspection on an overly picky new health inspector. 8:26 d : so you guys feel like he's trying to target the restaurant for shutdown as opposed to actually protecting public health? but stuff threat. raw meat, cut vegetables and dirty sink water should not be sharing such close quarters. and cut eggplant should not be put back into the dirty cardboard box it came in. 10:06 darcy: there was raw meat on the kitchen floor, stuff was at improper temperatures, things weren't clean. so that's pretty basic public health stuff. here's the meat stored on the kitchen floor. and check out this picture, where a head of cabbage has rolled out of its plastic bag onto the dirty kitchen tile. 11:24 darcy: would you want to eat a head of cabbage that had been sitting on the kitchen floor? he says it would've been properly cleaned before being

top of the lists, the english church was to be free from royal interference. also, the city of london and inheritance tax was to be limitedinheritance tax was to b limited at 100 pounds. john was levying 1,000 pounds, this is lowest imaginable rate of taxes set in magna carta. windows were to have rights to their inheritance guaranteed and allowed to stay in their family homes 40 days after the death of their husband. the king's justices were to go out we 4 times a year to year legal -- foreign advisers around the king and foreign missionaries kicked out of the country to take tax, the king had to start consulting his people in some form which would eventually become prominent. it was the idea that the tax could consult. land could be designated as royal forest. and lots of trees, and where the king can build to cut down trees to allow animals and forage and spreading lands in common ownership. that was to be rolled back several decades. and most famously, there were clauses i mentioned earlier, no free man shall be arrested or imprisoned or deprived of his po

with english. it's also a one stop shop for all things american, like science and culture. : "from the first day we came here we just got help from others"a& "we hope it will be a great place to let students in china to learn english and jim's ultimate dream is for his website to extent beyond all borders. "we hope my english garden will be accessed by many students not just in china"a& "all around ivy are growing a gardena& "i garden you plant the seed and you work hard to care for this grow and it will blossom into a beautiful flowerso that is the same thing with learning a language so when you plant the seed and you have this motivation to learn this language eventually after you which in this case is very fluent english." jim and his mom work with an army of volunteers and all of the tutorials on jim's website are free.tutorials on jim's all of the of volunteers and work with an army jim 3 jim and his mom work with of the tutorials on jim's website are free. they're so grateful for the support

it was founded initially by english quakers. one of their tenants was they believe in inner light and the inherent goodness of humans. they welcomed people from many nations on the shores of delaware bay. it was from the very beginning, pluralistic, organized around the middle class, and spawned a culture of middle america and what we think of as the heartland, where ethnic and ideological. he had never been a priority, where government is seen as an unwelcome intrusion, and political opinion is moderate, even apathetic. it was an ethnic mosaic from the start. even around the revolution, pennsylvania had a german rather than british majority. it is a swing region because it shares yankee belief that society should be organized to benefit ordinary people, but unlike the yankees, it rejects top-down government intervention to achieve this. it ends up being a buffer zone between two traditions in the yankee and appalachians that are at odds. it's no mistake that many maps have a large midlands section. moving southward into the che

know any english, whatsoever. >>reporter: he says he identifies with his coworkers in orlando who were part of a recent influx of puerto ricans arriving in central florida. many of them struggling to learn inr english. >> i wouldn't expect to get any better right now because we have a huge economic crisis in puerto rico driving this. >>reporter: state senator of orlando is working to secure 30 million dollars from the lang education, for legal immigrants in college. he's ready to respond to critics who don't want to pay tax money to teach english to new spanish-speaking residents. >> it will be a boom to our economy if we have more of these recent arrivals, learning english and being able to start professionals. >>reporter: eric says he sees it firsthand every day and he looks that will pay off. >> you don't know the doctors that could come out of that, the that. there's a lot of possibility and up. >>reporter: in orlando, channel 9, eyewitness news. >>> this is all that is left, look at this, of a small town in m

>> aye been here for six months and when i came here, i didn't speak english, but now i'm better. >> byron: you're doing very well. >> yes. six months and i -- -- but the class is very -- the class is very helpful, yeah, the teachers -- >> now, what do you -- you're a student. what are you working toward? >> i'm sheer just toasts. right. okay. julia, we were talking about some of the important things that the students learn here. give me an example. small talk? >> small talk. a lot of people don't understand the small talk. it's not in their question. they don't know how to anxious a question if a neighbor asks, how good morning. we had someone say i don't know what to say. i just want to run back to the house, so it builds up barriers that are not necessary, so by understanding little things, it will person feels confident. he doesn't feel awkward. or she doesn't feel awkward. and the foreigners have not seen as awkward people as well, because little things that make a difference. we talk a lot here about sports, we talk a lot here about weather. when somebody asks you hi, how are y

struggling with english. it saves our natural resources. >> reporter: and it's a american. >> on the first day we came here, we just... got help from others. we hope it will be a great place to let students in china to learn english. and to know american cult jure jim's ultimate dream is for his web site to extend beyond all borders. >> we hope my english garden will be a -- accessed by many students around the world. >> reporter: you see, jim and ivy are growing a garden. >> i saw the name because in a garden, you plant the seed and eventually it will grow and blossom into a beautiful flower. >> today, we have the story of the tortoise and the hair. get the reward, which in this case is fluent english. >> they work with an army of volunteers. and all of the tutorials on jim's web site are all free. they are grateful, the support they received here in tampa that they wanted to share what they learned with the rest of the world and we are very thankful that they did. >> how about this? the cold weather taking

no english? english? do you speak english? nobody speaks english. okay. she ends up calling her son, and gives me the phone. 5:09 darcy on phone: tell us why this happened again for the second time in seven months. he blames the bad inspection on an overly picky new health inspector. 8:26 d : so you guys feel like he's trying to target the restaurant for shutdown as opposed to actually protecting like this is a public health threat. raw meat, cut vegetables and dirty sink water should not be sharing such close quarters. and cut eggplant should not be put back into the dirty cardboard box it came in. 10:06 darcy: there was raw meat on the kitchen floor, stuff was at improper temperatures, things weren't clean. so that's pretty basic public health stuff. here's the meat stored on the kitchen floor. and check out this picture, where a head of cabbage has rolled out of its plastic bag onto the dirty kitchen tile. 11:24 darcy: would you want to eat a head of cabbage that had been sitting on the kitchen floor? he says it would've been properly cleaned before be

you already speak english. >> trevor: i did. >> do you understand my english right now? yeah.applause) >> so and you know, really, it was really, it is something crazy that i'm doing right now, you know. and it's new, it's very exciting. and why am i doing this? to be honest with you, you want the american answer? its-- . >> trevor: i want the real answer. >> real answer? no, i'm going to give you the american one. >> trevor: the american one. >> i need to challenge myself. (laughter) (applause). >> trevor: was that an american accent, that sounded like an american person doing a french accent of a person doing an american ak sen. >> born in morocco. that is the east coast version of it. you want the west coast. it's my passion project. (laughter) that's why i'm doing it. >> trevor: oh, man. >> if they are watching the show on the west coat right now. >> trevor: not right now. we are taping it and then-- then it's three hours behind. >> we disn know that. my mom is watching right now. >> trevor: this show? >> yeah. not now, i mean-- . >> trevor: of course. well. >> hi, mom. an

andre all english man subject to the king's laws. >> order! the chair recognizes the speaker to my left. >> my name is cooper. i teach my sons to respect their father's words. we are not the sons of liberty. we are the sons of our father and our king who protects that. the chair recognizes the speaker to my right on the floor. we patriots must continue to protest. > >> my name is john. i ask you, loyalists, who shall respond? i will ask in her name. i ask you, my brother, to join me, and together we shall fight for justice. the chair recognizes the speaker to my left in the balcony. a why should re-support government whose laws are hurting our economy? we must protest. gentlemen, the night grows late. i realize we have many more who wish to speak that we have time to accommodate. the question may soon be called. i will ask the monitors to please select one more person who may speak this evening before we try to move to some resolution on this issue. my left? .> my name is john murray everyone here knows that 3/10 is a small price for the king'

it didn't really teach me english but culture. with the thanksgiving new year's eve. >> what about the south koreans and the experience? >> this is a dilemma for me. this is not like they don't have compassion. they do. the because of the korean war. so that is why you are scheerer. but then to think we are less educated people. to maybe have a higher crime rates. but then the free market if you don't work hard or you're not trustworthy. that is the of stereotypes against us. and i tell my professor i am south korea and that is how i survived again. but the key for your question. >> has the regime tried to discredit you? to make yes. [inaudible] in october that was the first time to tell my story. i was not allowed to share. but in south korea and had just turned 21. [inaudible] but then i realized i had to tell the whole story. so i put everything down in the book. is you can see all my neighbors. did everything to try teetoo discredit me. -- trying to discredit me. >> i just have requested -- have a question and you said you don

we know that english is the language of opportunity here. we want people to retain and, their language they come with, but we also know that in order to help move up the economic ladder, it's really important that people learn english. so there's a lot of work we've been doing with the department of education in particular to pro moat best practicing that are happening at the local le l and i was going to talk mainly an the welcoming committee's community work we're doing, another tier of work with the task force on new americans. the work we're doing is really in partnership of the agencies part of the task force on new americans but also nonprofits out of government who have been working with cities and ngos and many others across the country to really promote welcoming communities. so we launched in september, last september, the building welcoming communities campaign and really it's an effort to encourage folks that are already doing this work to take it to the next level, be very strategic about the work that they're doing by developin

we work with youth and adults to help them with english, career skills and what their next stetch in life will be. and then we also have family and community engagement programs, these are a little more in-depth. we work with families, help make sure families are healthy and functioning. we work with parents with special needs, offering them support and make sure they feel sulport and have pier mentors. so a lot of different ins the that we do to just help families and members of our community thrive. >> i'm interested in the career skills that you do, skill teaching. do you have classes to do certain things in terms of skills? well as res hey and interview help, but most recently something we've done is irk withed with some partner organizations in the chinatown community to get kind of those most in need in our commute see if we could work with them and learn english and also get retail skills. so there is a whole foods that's come to the chinatown area, there is a roach brothers, a walgreenss and there are jobs in those places and we'd like the members of those communities to be a

t speak english. so she doesn't know what's funny in english. >> seth: i want to -- i think it's important. i feel like our audience might not understand.uccessful. you are hugely famous, not just in france, all over europe, all over the world. and yet you decided to come here --a. >> seth: except america. >> the world -- >> seth: yes. and you came here, and for the first time i saw you just a few first time you were performing your act in english. why after all that success did you give yourself a challenge like this? >> to be honest, it's because ? i'm not saying i have everything in france, i'm very grateful and i want to say hi to my french fans. they are watching us right now.ver there. they have no idea who we are, but -- >> seth: no. [ laughter ] that's okay. >> this is what's happening for o are watching who have no idea who i am. [ laughter ] >> seth: there we go. we're trading. [ cheers and applause ] know, to be honest with you, you know, being able to start over, you know? on stage in amer

sentenced the teaching of english teachers college in a small city in the southwest.that became the subject of his astonishing 1st book rivertown. so draining think of for the new yorker. he wrote a trilogy of books about the country and the other two are oracle bones and country driving. i don't know how she does this, unbelievably fluidly and elegantly in both languages. transforming a country they grand old man of china ready for the new yorker. he is a pioneer in the writing of china served as the dean of the university, scholar, writer, producer and teacher develop to start with. distillate groundwork not that the whole world is like reporters others who have been trying to make sense it became something of a tremendous lower precisely because of this refusal to accept us. so when i finallyi finally got there there was something of a moment of hedge era, trip to the sort of holy land if you will but i have to say that once there i was pretty perplexed because i spoke chinese. a little chinese. i thought i have a rudimentary understanding. yet when confronted is a

. >> does he agree with me that encouraging people in this country to learn the english language has a unifying effect? it helps to create national identity and social cohesion and, therefore, should be promoted. >> my honorable friend is right. i think the most important thing in our country is we make sure that everybody can take advantage of the opportunities in our country to work, to take him at the university. it i is an opportunity country t there's no opportunity for people if you don't speak the language. that's why we will be targeting money at those people that often women who have been stuck at home sometimes by the men in the house and make sure they can get the english language skills that they need. let me make one other additional point because i think this is important. when i sat in a mosque this week when a young people said how important it is that the imams speak english because if we have young people sometimes who speak english themselves but not arabic, they need someone to guide them away from isil and the poisonous rhetoric. so speaking english is important

my mom is not an english teacher, and i -- she doesn't even speak french, and i speak english. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah, no. look, i get it, you're rubbing it in, and you're right. >> you know, you should learn. >> seth: do you want to teach me a french phrase? would that be helpful? >> oh, sure. >> seth: something i could bring back to her? >> do you want me to teach him a french phrase? [ cheers and applause ] all right. bonsoir -- >> seth: bonsoir. >> je m'appelle seth meyers. >> seth: je m'appelle seth meyers. >> no, with the french accent. set meyer. >> seth: je m'appelle set meyers. [ laughter ] >> his name is not sexy at all in french, right? >> seth: no. yeah. >> seth meyers is something. "set meyer" is like a little guy, you know. [ laughter ] okay. je m'appelle set meyer. >> seth: je m'appelle set meyers. >> et le seul film que j'ai vu. >> seth: et le seul film je te vu. [ laughter ] >> no, i didn't say that at all. >> seth: i wanted to put a little seth meyers on it. >> i said "my name is seth meyers." >> seth: okay. >> seth: okay. [ speaking in french ] >> sur le france. >>

so let's watch this. >> it's hard to see the english subtitles.his is on the web with english subtitles but he's basically talking about how, like fruits the ripen and fall from a tree, people prepare for martyrdom and then they're ready for martyrdom. >> so that's the title shot for this film your dawwa, it's called the martyrdom of dawwa. you see is a smiley face, the gentle voice, the teacher. used to think i was explaining ramadan 10 years earlier, but he's got a very different message now. the u.s. succeeded in killing the messenger, but the message lives on. so with that let me stop talking and invite your questions. i'm happy to talk about anything i've mentioned, the book, the reporting for the book in yemen, you know, whatever is on your mind i'd be happy to talk about. yes? and were going to wait for a microphone. >> what do you know about the reasons that jihadists, what jihadists and they're going to actually accomplish practically by committing the acts of terrorism but what do they expect to get out of it? >> that's a great question,

it was founded initially by english quakers. one of their tenants was they believe in inner light and the inherent goodness of humans. they welcomed people from many nations on the shores of delaware bay. it was from the very beginning, pluralistic, organized around the middle class, and spawned a culture of middle america and what we think of as the heartland, where ethnic and ideological. he had never been a priority, where government is seen as an unwelcome intrusion, and political opinion is moderate, even apathetic. it was an ethnic mosaic from the start. even around the resolution, pennsylvania had a german rather than british majority. it is a swing region because it shares the yankee believe that society should be organized to benefit regular people, but unlike the yankees, it rejects top-down government intervention to achieve this. it ends up being a buffer zone between two traditions in the yankee and appalachian space that are very much at odds. it's no accident that many of our swing states have large midlands secti

at the age of 11 without her beloved parents making a difference in the lives of children whose english was a second language. this group is travelling to academy to engage in a community service and experimental learning process sharing with two different schools and for many students here represent the first opportunity to travel internationally and explore country. to tell us more we've invited the head marser of the school dan yeah vazquez, director of margarita muniz academy, teacher marilu alvarado and kamila mercado. sounds exciting. >> it is really exciting. thank you for having us today. >> couldn't say no. >> this is really an historic moment for our school that our students can do this especially at this time in history where cuba is at and the fact that our students are studying the history of cuba, the history of caribbean, the history of south america they really get hands-on experience. this is really an exciting moment. >> how many students are more or less going? >> eight to ten students be going, kamila and marylou. >> you've got to come after and ask questions. deal?

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zero black ancestry. >> i'm, what, 90% irish english, yeah? rest is viking. >> the rest is viking. what's interesting is that you have these -- look at how your irish ancestors were exploited by the english. >> absolutely. >> but half of your family tree and the much more detailed way back in the past is english. so you have this wart of ethnicities and war of nationalities in your genenom. >> i don't hold a grudge against the english for what they did in the 17th century and again again in the 19th century. i don't. it's not part of my makeup. i am proud of my irish heritage because on my father's side twin 16-year-old boys came here from ireland to brooklyn. >> in 1884. >> with no adult supervision and they made it. >> with none. and they came from county caven which had been disseminated. >> by the english. >> and which was, you know,md certainly not discouraged by the english. >> the other thing you found out about my ancestors was that one of them was a slave holder. >> that's right. that was simon's son moses. and he gave his slave ben i