[speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] >> [english translation] china is willing to engage in dialogue with the united states on the principle of non- interference in each other's internal affairs. we will be able to further increase our mutual understanding, reduce our disagreements, and expand our common ground. >> speaking chinese] >> speaking chinese] >> as to who is attending the dinner, that is a question best answered by president obama. >> you said the inmates to be further adjustment in the exchange rate. to what extent is the depression of the chinese currency affect your ability to grow jobs in this country and lower the unemployment rate? >> i think it is important for us to look at the entire economic relationship and the currency issue is one part of it. the first time i met president who was in april of 2009. summit ithe first g-20 intended when we were in the midst of the worst financial crisis we have experienced since the 1930's. >> chinese translation] >> chinese translation] >> even as we were trying to stabilize the financial system, what was absolutely clear was w

and gone out as english to all around the world. so the english that people are speaking all around the planet actually includes words that often comes from languages that are their own native languages as well. one interesting detail is that today english is spoken by people who don't use it as a native language the home. for every native speaker of english, there are three nonnative. numbers likely to jump to six in just a few years. this is a time when the english language is changing very quickly. it's an exciting time to be the speaker of a language for people that speak it natively and not. you focus on 30 words, i understand, how did you choose those words? >> well, i really wanted to pick words that came from different sectors of the language. and just to show the range of parts of life that english has entered into. so some of the words some from media, like hollywood, film, star. some come from cooking or just food like cookie. which is also now a computer word. there's a lot of technology words because of the nature of th

. >> i am half australian, half english. the only reason i came upon this story is michael scalea mother, late 2007, had some -- my australian mother, late 2007, had some australian friends go to an unrehearsed play called "the king's speech." my mother has never been invited to a plea reading in her life. thank god, she did, because she called me up and said, you are not going to believe this, tom, because i think i found your next film. the moral of your story is -- the moral of the story is, listen to your mother. tavis: what do you make of the fact that your mother goes to an unrehearsed play, she is so moved that she calls you? and then you look up and you have 12 oscar nominations. what do you make of that? >> i feel that my film in many ways is about the dysfunctional affect of parenting on a child. it led to a lot of his trauma, and i am one of the lucky ones. i am the son of highly functioning parents who i am incredibly lucky and have. when i look at this journey, i had to have a good influence on my life. i think

[speaking chinese] >> [english translation] because of the injured -- interpretation, i would like to ask the interpreter to interpret my two questions correctly and accurately. [laughter] >> [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] >> [english translation] my first question for president obama -- as many people do believe that the biggest problem in this relationship is the lack of strategic -- do you agree with this view? how do you think the two sides should have mutual trust and how do you think the two sides should properly manage their differences and expand their common interests? >> [chinese translation] [chinese translation] >> [english translation] my second question is for president hu jintao. the chinese and american leaders have on various occasions stressed the fact that the influence and the significance of the china-u.s. relationship has gone far beyond the bilateral dimensions that they both share common interests and show important common responsibilities in addressing a variety of regional and global issues. my question is that, how do you think china and the united st

of course english should be our official language. that makes sense. canada is anyone who is creating jobs a visa. when i was traveling around the world, my counterparts were giving -- since 2001, that has totally changed. we have almost become hostile to the best and brightest. many of our great technology companies were founded by immigrants. it is the first employed -- the first amendment. we challenge the status quo. we have a first amendment that challenges innovative thinking. we have to preserve that as part of our national strategy. >> why english as the official language? >> because a culture should have a common language. i did the analysis in the business does. industry should do it. we do it for our trade show and we should do it for our country. we have to be able to communicate. let's face it, the immigrants who came here, our forefathers who came here learned english. my in-laws learned english. my wife is insisting our children learn polish and chinese. i do not understand 2/30 of what is going on in my family. the rest of the world is

. >> reporter: americans generally assume everyone speaks english. >> do you speak-a any english?reporter: often they exceed our expectations. former chinese president jiang zemin surprised mike wallace in 2000 by reciting the gettysburg address in english. >> four score and seven years ago. even the french president speaks english, kind of. >> we will be happy to help you make money in france. >> reporter: but americans do not generally share some multilingual talents. >> i don't speak a foreign language. it's embarrassing. >> reporter: instead of struggling with foreign grammar, americans would rather struggle with headphones to hear the translation. but not in city terrace public school in east los angeles. where 90 students have been learning chinese since kindergarten. ( speaking chinese ) >> reporter: like his classmates, nelson enriquez even has his own chinese name? >> five years old, they're like little sponges. >> reporter: nelson's family speaks spanish at home so he is trilingual, which the eight- year-old is already planning to exploit. >> i'm job and test test test >

this shows for the cantonese english -- where the cantonese english learners live and where the programs are located. we did the same for mandarin, for spanish. we did the same for the filipino newcomers, spanish newcomers. the next slide shows the ctip1 areas and where the city-wide schools and programs are located. the first few slides included the citywide programs that are newcomer programs and biliteracy programs. the english learner space does not include them even though they are supplied -- even though they are citywide. they are in another part of the analysis. the board policy framework which we are hoping will be approved tomorrow night -- once that is approved, that gives us the certainty that we should go ahead and build routes using that framework. by mid-january, we would have dropped routes available. >> i am sorry. i am looking at the city-wide schools and programs map. why is bright -- breet hart eighth citywide program? >> they are building a spanish emergen-- immersion program. the key question -- we have been having community conversations over the last month and a h

the my parents are immigrants and learned english. my wife is insisting that my child learn polish and chinese. my three and a half-year-old speaks three languages at this point. it's awfully good to learn the languages because it helps to communicate but the rest of the world is learning different languages. america should, too bad but we need one basically what you think it is english. >> and other global issue you said that the u.s. finalize the free trade agreement in four years while other countries are signing agreements. why do you think this is the case, and what needs to be done to kind of spur the u.s. policy? >> one of the most dangerous things that i see is the arrogance of american suburban from the world. the rest of the world, canada, south america, europe, asia are furiously entering free trade agreements, cutting down tariffs. the double exports, to do that we cannot have more than other countries to export our products. you ask why, for four years we have had a speaker of the house of representatives. the unions were

a marriage in english sky. as it happens and i was working when i was in russia i was working for a television station and. a news program based on but after we got married i spoke quite good english then my husband didn't speak i knew. he's also an academic print it's quite difficult to find a job for a normal russian speaking academic in russia so we decided to move here so you're working fulltime business developer but you also work as a narrative for a magazine india is how we run this this is our this is this magazine started ten years ago by a couple. had a successful run a newspaper which was the first russian language newspaper now there are several on offer but we won't worry about that. and this started as just a glossy supplement to direct businesses and tourist come travel agents and and soaps where you can buy russian produce and books and various things and over the years have developed into a poor portaloo glossy magazine. firstly the huge russian speaking community in this country also people wh

the english fans have made so much noise. it is exactly what they wanted to do. i have not seen the official crowd figures yet. it would not surprise me if there were 15,000 english people inside the ground today. at one time, it was almost entirely full. entrance was free. they have made a great spectacle of it today, english fans. >> a very happy james in sydney. earlier, i was joined by the founder of that club. he said the fans were delighted by the comprehensive nature of the victory. >> it has been 26 years since we won over here. lots of emotions this morning. >> you followed all the series matches. did you have any idea it would end this way for england? >> to be honest, i thought they looked to the real deal. from day one, the boxing day massacre, we have been on top since then. we took it 3-1. >> you are interested in england's team playing. >> the captain, the coach, the set up behind things, we have seen them perform. they have worked well behind the scenes. we are loving it. winning over here is extra special. >> and credit presumably to the support

the good old english everyone loves prosperous. visited london six times between the year. listen and allegedly lenin stalin for the first time inside this pump the sewage must library just down the road these three can have a lot of strength elsewhere. and i think you believe you see the cost so this is a very leftist sort of area and we have we have a lot of tears coming in just because of that sign. however there's a new story than first meets telling the bullshit congress and so just filling in nineteen or five i don't wake many feet legs and he is in london still very limited to. the cultural center pushkin house was founded in one nine hundred fifty six everything that catered in notting hill and moved to this new venue in bloomsbury square in two thousand and six now they have over four hundred members or friends as they're called and every month they have a range of cultural activities including exhibition is concepts and actions. just serve as a showcase for russian culture in london focused english and cultural exchange. sent to provide educational information in

i knew english. english publishing hadn't been changed in the way it was now. you could go and find really important booking being published in some cases by small firms. there was a lot going on. >> how did that first -- how do those -- those fuco books, they were reviewed; right? they were ignored? >> negatively. that's another interesting aspect. you know, we talk about iron curtains. but we don't talk about i guess the paper curtains in most of the professions. my member review that complainted about his footnotes. was it peter gay? a distinguished american historian. the point was that fuco had written the book in poland. he was working from memory. he didn't have the archives at his disposal. so the footnotes were dicey. instead of dealing with the ideas in the book, you zoom were something that you can complain about when you want to talk about new ideas. lang's work was never reviewed by any psychiatric journal, and it was called anti-psychiatry in those days. those weren't reviewed at all either. it's interesting to look and see if profession by profes

he graduated in iraq with a bachelor's degree in english.working and going to school and get qualified as a special needs teacher in california. he can't find work in his feemd field see she attending english and second language classes, working at a coffee shop. but they are grateful for what they have. >> and as for the boys, he and his brother now only have to worry about a little sibling rivalry. >> mustafa, aren't you happy that he is here helping you? >> yeah. >> getting rid of wrinkles without surgery. coming up, wrinkle smoothing cream that promises to make the skin years younger and a rare visit to dream works bay area rprp >>> san jose state university is set to play a roll in the war in afghanistan. not a military one but an education one. >> san jose state university is embarking on a mission to take a modern journalism curriculum to western afghanistan and iraq. >> they have received a grant of $1.22 million to do media training in afghanistan over the next three years. >> these two professors will train faculty which will inspi

then in the 13th century, the english wised up to the area's strategic spot on the water. 14 anglo-norman families, known as the tribes of galway, settled in the area, forcing out the local irish and building a great wall around the city. you can see one of the last surviving vestiges of that wall here at the spanish arch, where incoming ships unloaded cargo. the merchant tribes grew wealthy, thanks to a strong wine and brandy trade with spain. today galway hums as a cultural center, providing a home for students, artists, and writers. in the summer, people come from all over the country to stroll the cobblestone lanes. they'll stop in pubs to listen to music or perhaps a bit of poetry. the little shops and narrow streets give the city's old quarter a kind of left bank feel, and medieval echoes are everywhere. galway's early anglo-norman settlers built the church of st. nicholas in 1320. considered one of the best-preserved medieval churches in ireland, it contains many excellent gargoyles and carvings from the middle ages. according to legend, christopher columbus visited galway on his w

she could not read in english or chinese, so we had no english materials in my house. every week i would get as many books as i could carry. this was a window of the world for me, i am hoping that it will be the same for the kids in east oakland. the library is funded by the city and this school boards. >> wet snow in san francisco, look at what we found on market street tonight. this is actually the one market building, this is not real snow, with fake snow for the second annual snow white fashion of bed. several hundred people attending where a white. the coup's designers, hair makeup artists, photographers and many models. it is a showcase for various artists in the fashion industry. >> well i never mentioned snell in the forecast, i'm glad that is not real. but we have real rain out there and tonight. this is the view of san francisco from earlier. storm trackers showing for showing not widespread, but spotty showers and some are heavy. heavy round concord and walnut creek, it is beginning to decrease in intensity, also some showers to the south bay and snow into t

the making of the english working class by e.b. thompson, also the books of e.h. carr, eric -- [inaudible] you published r.d. lang's books including the divided self, you published books of sartre and then -- [inaudible] was, when you discovered fukow, you were going to britain a lot? >> france and britain and germany. >> and you you would just talk o people and say who's -- >> no. you took a look at what there was in the bookstores. >> you would just go to bookstores? >> yeah. and read the reviews and, you know, it wasn't that hard. you know, i've written a memoir called "a political education" which i talk a lot about the mccarthy period which is when i came of age, in the '40s and '50s. and that had the effect of really eliminating from american life a lot of the thought from europe or even in america that was at all dissenting, right? so when i published chomsky's first book, he had never been published politically until the new york review published his first articles, and we published the book. and the same was true of europe. i mean, people who were known t

i'm married to an immigrant, my in-laws are immigrants, they learned english. now, look, my wife is insisting my child learns polish and chinese, but i respect that. it's not only good to learn languages because it helps you communicate, it also gets your brain differently. the rest of the world is learning different language. americans should, too, but i think we need one basic language, and that's english. >> host: you said the u.s. has finalized a free trade agreement in four years, why do you think this is the case, and what needs to be done to kind of spur u.s. policymakers? >> guest: one of the most dangerous things that i see is the arrogance of america's separating ourselves from the rest of the world. canada, south america, europe, asia, they're furiously entering free trade agreements. the president, correctly, wants to double exports. we can't pay other countries to export our countries. you asked why we haven't in the last four years? for four years we've had a speaker of the house i of representatives that was far left, and the unions were very muc

english classes offered. this way parents are more connected to their kids' ed oox parents come in to observe the class or... sit to help out. or... if they don't understand home work maybe they're invited to come in. >> many schools in california struggled to close achievement gap, this school reminded everyone today that it can be done. in oakland abc 7 news. >> and a national environmental group with offices in san francisco today called a federal regulator to ban pesticides from common flea collars. >> 7 on your side is here with the story. >> you may remember last month, i think, we first reported national resources defense council won a settlement mandating a label on the flea collars today the group asked the epa to ban cancer-causing pesticides from flea kol yarz altogether. >> the chemical not just bad for flea buzz toxic for pets and pet owners and once on the fur, children can come into contact with those residues. >> national resources defense council is concerned about the pesticide that says it

. >> hinojosa: ...because you were focused on speaking english, and they were not learning english becausee busy working. >> that's right. >> hinojosa: what did you do about this kind of dichotomy of "which one... am i chinese? am i american? am i chinese american? do my parents see me as that?" how did you kind of... >> yeah, there was no... intellectualizing it, that's for sure. it was just day to day life. this was just reality. >> hinojosa: well, was the united states, at that point, a welcoming country to a young chinese boy, or... >> we were in chinatown, and so that was kind of an enclave to a certain extent. we went to chinese school, you know? most of the students at lincoln elementary school were from chinatown. there was a mix, for sure. some of my best friends were japanese and african americans, but it was largely a chinese community, and therefore, you didn't really get that much of a sense of the outer society at that young age. and you know, how do you get through that? you bond as siblings-- which i did-- and you do what parents expect of you, which is to work hard and stu

it's in english. >> this is under way now?> it's not really a venture, it's just a service that i'm providing. yes. when they look on choosemyhouse.com, get my e-mail, choosemyhouse@earthlink.get. i'll give them the particulars. they can pick them up. i have them in storage there. close to san jose state. or they can send $20, $30 for the shipping and i'll send them whatever books they want. >> what kind of a response have you gotten? >> this is the first time you're seeing it right here. >> you're breaking news here on "comunidad del valle"? >> yes. >> i'm proud of you, thank you, thank you. what does it take? is it courage to be able to do this, or is it the mentality to say, i'm going to make a difference out there? >> we all have, just like you do, which we have this program. we all have our niches. we all work together, you know, for positive, shall we say, results in our communities and our societies. i think that we can make a difference in many ways. >> you know, in all honesty, charlie, i've known you for a lot of yea

i believe that my undergraduate degree in english with a history of elizabethan theater qualifies for that. and then it says plus one of the following. two years in experience of research, writing, teaching your interpretation or other demonstrable professional activity for an academic institution, agency, museum more so forth. -- museum for so forth. i believe that i have established my credentials in that area. under the language of the charter it says that under the secretary for with demonstrable experience in north american are bay area history, i believe that the decades i have been involved in the history of the city of san francisco is a demonstrable experience in bay area history. i was reading from section 4.135, qualification no. 3. supervisor campos: thank you. that was helpful. supervisors democrats supervisor alioto-pier: -- supervisors? supervisor alioto-pier: i wanted to ask the city attorney to approach. the question of the appropriateness of the seat seems to be the crux around this particular appointment. i agree with mr. johns.

make sure there is out rich so that we protect communities of low income earners, color, a limited english speakers, so that there are options. i would like to know where the commissioners stand. certainly, for the other commissioners, the approach for moving equity through the historic preservation commission. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. >> mike beuhler, on behalf of san francisco architectural heritage. i just want to support the appointment of andrew wolfram. having attended each and every one of the commission meetings over the past several months, i find commissioner andrew wolfram to be one of the most thoughtful and engaging commission is we have had. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker. >> howard wong. the san francisco historical consortium supports the reappointment of andrew wolfram. he was confirmed by the board previously and that it went through a process where we looked at his qualifications. certainly, he had demonstrated the qualifications and expertise during his tenure. his projects as a preservation architect are quite wordy and

so, too, will buy non-english language services, three in the balkans. opposition politicians say it will undermine britain's international reputation and influence. the ec says it is responding to cuts in government funding. >> it started as the bbc empire service. for more than 80 years, it has helped burnish britain's image abroad. now, it is facing the biggest cuts in its history. >> it is a sad day for some audiences in the world service and to those people who are leaving their jobs, but the world service is such a strong, important thing for britain and our audience that we are determined to make sure that it is supported. >> today's world service broadcasts in 32 languages, including english. but a big reduction in for an office grants is forcing big changes. the cuts include the closure of five language services completely, including those in serbian and albanian. a further seven including russian will land radiobroadcasting to move entirely online, and the bbc claims 30 million listeners will be lost thanks to those changes and the closure of s

many of them couldn't speak english but they all knew their latin. but he held onto his mountain ways, as a cherished birthright. he took his musket, with hunting all through his life. played his fiddle for fun and relaxation, friends and family throughout his life. a deeply religious man, he never drank except an occasional small beer, which is what they called low alcohol beer. although someone told me that low alcohol beer was 5% to alcohol anyway. henry study law on his own, and in case after case he fooled opponents into underestimating his genius. by wearing humble, homemade farmers close and speaking in his own natural mountain twang. some judges and opposing lawyers, especially city lawyers, dismissed him as a yokel. but jurors invariably embraced him as one of their own, and inevitably found for his client. in his first important is called parsons cause, he defended local tobacco farmers who couldn't pay taxes to the anglican church after a series of drought had wiped out their crops. everybody had to pay taxes to the anglican church, it was

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[applause] >> i am half english my mother was english. when people say nice things about you when you are english, you feel embarrassed. [laughter] but i am. [laughter] of but then you also thank them. life thank you very much. i am happy to read on the book if you like but i think i will talk about it. then by the end of yummy to read from that i will but then i think you may want to ask questions. thank you for coming so to explain the book is a talk about the fire was thinking about a book that i wrote years ago looking for examples across societies of moral questions one of the most famous such conversations is a dialogue between christian missionaries elites with men were wise in business and chinese intellectuals talking about foot binding of girls in china i read some literature on that and regulate people say the reason why the chinese mandarins gave up what binding because it was on stage a stain on the national honor of china. i can think of better reasons to not cause intense pain of two little girls. it is binding the feet so

if we are looking at past bills, some type of english requirement and some type of fund is likely to be there. those are two areas where it will really affect the ability of a community to fully utilize, as a legalization process, is going to turn on whether or not services are already in place. particularly with fines and application fees, thinking about these folks as an investment in the city's future and trying to determine if there are micro loans or other programs that the commission or city might be able to help sponsor to make it easier for people to be able to take advantage of the law when it is passed is something that you need to start thinking about now. there are good programs at other places have tried, the state of illinois, in particular. >> thank you. you have given us a lot of food for thought. commissioners, and this concludes the >> thank you, director. thank you penlists and speakers for your testimony. at this stage, we will at the end, if you have questions carb i know one or two might have a question. i will do it after public comment. if i may, i would like

our seniors, our children and low income, english as a second language to reach out to them who will need our help during disasters. personally, the plan came into affect during katrina. my family is from new orleans. they were born and educated there. my grandparents are buried there and my sisters lived there. my sister did not evacuate until the last minute. she didn't voluntary evacuation and got stuck in a traffic jam and her car ran out of gas and had 2 kids in the back and was scared to death after that. when they said hurricane warning she was gone. she would pack up the kid in the car and the dog heading to dallas, texas where we have relatives and did that every time. there were times she would get 75 miles out of town and they would say, turn around come on home. and they said cheryl stay come to our hurricane party. they always say new orleans will flood. she said. i was wrong this time but i only need to be right, once. when they called the voluntary evacuation with katrina and when the levies broke we knew she was safe. she had her disaster kit and family. the only one

than english. different to the moscow fashion scene it's. designer clothes that have been put to the back of. presents sizes or simply. fashions secondhand they are old and decrepit not. amazing with amazing price tags. january sales. were out. of our first shop was opened over fifteen years ago the one we're in now is open just two years we get clothes from celebrities and less known people like their owners are tired of having them in their wardrobe we have very sales and discounts and only sell branded products from the world's top designers. second breath is among a group of small companies that understands. firing the. classes from vintage dresses to private school purses this is what needs more and some retail industry scientists aim to change just that. located in the back streets just off the river this place isn't easy to find but what's a gem is a must the code look as if they're brand new the collection is impressive the price is all low cost that's the original price sounds good to me if i only did. sume one of the largest and mo

just serve as a showcase for russian culture in london focused english cultural exchange. sent to provide educational information in russian language and culture and is an excellent resource and networking center for individuals and institutions. get a variety of people coming in last different people russians known russians alike we welcome what will everybody from from central asia and all the nations that used to be part of the soviet union and that's very important for us to know if it's a wonderful people coming in here people like was it people like there is only one of them boris group in chicago for the great ball of musician who's been here three times sometimes he comes here and tries out his new songs with us before he records that which is fantastic for ins came here and wrote a short story by chekov. called cause a cough came here of a city that avoid came here. so it has some really wonderful people and they come here they enjoy coming. off of the. sea push give else. besides its own events pushkin house welcomes and encourages cooperation with other institut