Search results for 'tag:Countries' matching tag 'Countries'http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aCountriesSearch results for 'tag:Countries' matching tag 'Countries'en-USXMOD (Build: 3616.28671)How to test an speaker pronunciationhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/HowTestSpeakerPronunciation/lpkxx/post.htmSun, 22 Nov 2009 04:06:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:995568storytellerHello all. I want to select for my stories for children site (URL removed by mod) a voice narrator. The problem is that I do not have such an english level to choose the best person if more than one speak very fluently What should I check for to make sure I can detect and identify a great pronunciation from just a good one? Thank you for your help.The Bible - Blessed are the meek: for...http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheBibleBlessedMeek/llnpc/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976788hitchhikerBlessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.Sir Winston Churchill - The maxim of the British...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SirWinstonChurchillMaximBritish/llnpb/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:08 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976787hitchhikerThe maxim of the British people is "Business as usual.Sir Thomas Beecham - The English may not like...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SirThomasBeechamEnglish/llnpr/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976786hitchhikerThe English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - London, that great cesspool into...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SirArthurConanDoyleLondonGreat-CesspoolInto/llnxq/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976785hitchhikerLondon, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.Sir Alan Patrick Herbert - The Englishman never enjoys himself...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SirAlanPatrickHerbertEnglishman-NeverEnjoysHimself/llnxp/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976784hitchhikerThe Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.Robert Burton - England is a paradise for...http://www.englishforums.com/English/RobertBurtonEnglandParadise/llnxx/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976783hitchhikerEngland is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women...Ralph Waldo Emerson - I find the Englishman to...http://www.englishforums.com/English/RalphWaldoEmersonEnglishman/llnxn/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976782hitchhikerI find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strainProverb - The English summer: three fine...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ProverbEnglishSummerThreeFine/llnxl/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:02 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976780hitchhikerThe English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm.Miriam ``Ma"" Ferguson - English was good enough for...http://www.englishforums.com/English/MiriamFergusonEnglishEnough/llnxk/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:01 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976779hitchhikerEnglish was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.Margot Tennant Asquith - The ingrained idea that, because...http://www.englishforums.com/English/MargotTennantAsquithIngrainedIdea-Because/llnxj/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976778hitchhikerThe ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.James Agate - The Englishman can get along...http://www.englishforums.com/English/JamesAgateEnglishmanAlong/llnxw/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:10:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976777hitchhikerThe Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.Herbert Ernest Bates - Climate helps to shape the...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HerbertErnestBatesClimateHelpsShape/llnxh/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976776hitchhikerClimate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.George Bernard Shaw - There is nothing so bad...http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeorgeBernardShawNothing/llnxg/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976775hitchhikerThere is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.Dr. Samuel Johnson - No, Sir, when a man...http://www.englishforums.com/English/DrSamuelJohnson/llnxz/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:55 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976774hitchhikerNo, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.Douglas Jerrold - I find the Englishman to...http://www.englishforums.com/English/DouglasJerroldEnglishman/llnxv/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:55 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976773hitchhikerI find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.Dorothy Parker - The two most beautiful words...http://www.englishforums.com/English/DorothyParkerMostBeautifulWords/llnxd/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:54 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976772hitchhikerThe two most beautiful words in the English language are "check enclosed.Dean Acheson - Great Britain has lost an...http://www.englishforums.com/English/DeanAchesonGreatBritainLost/llnxc/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:54 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976771hitchhikerGreat Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.Clarence Seward Darrow - Even if you do learn...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ClarenceSewardDarrowEvenLearn/llnxb/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:53 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976770hitchhikerEven if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?William Tyler Page - The American's Creed adopted by...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WilliamTylerPageAmericansCreed-Adopted/llnxr/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:52 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976769hitchhikerThe American's Creed adopted by the House of Representatives, April 3, 1918 I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom; equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend if against all enemies.William Shakespeare - Those that are good manners...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WilliamShakespeareThoseManners/llnnq/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976768hitchhikerThose that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at the court.William Cowper - God made the country, and...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WilliamCowperMadeCountry/llnnp/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976767hitchhikerGod made the country, and man made the town.William Cowper - England, with all thy faults...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WilliamCowperEnglandFaults/llnnx/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:50 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976766hitchhikerEngland, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!William Congreve - I nauseate walking; ?tis a...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WilliamCongreveNauseateWalking/llnnn/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:47 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976765hitchhikerI nauseate walking; ?tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.William Bligh - Damn the laws of England!...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WilliamBlighDamnLawsEngland/llnnm/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976764hitchhikerDamn the laws of England! I make the laws and every son of a bitch shall be governed by them.Will Rogers - The American people are very...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WillRogersAmerican/llnnl/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976763hitchhikerThe American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.Walter Bagehot - It has been said that...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WalterBagehotSaid/llnnk/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:45 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976762hitchhikerIt has been said that England invented the phrase, ?Her Majesty's Opposition?; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself. This critical opposition is the consequence of cabinet government.Walt Whitman - The United States themselves are...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WaltWhitmanUnitedStatesThemselves/llnnj/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:45 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976761hitchhikerThe United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.W.E.B. DuBois - It is a peculiar sensation,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WDuboisPeculiarSensation/llnnw/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976760hitchhikerIt is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others... One ever feels his twoness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.W. C. Fields - Reminds me of my safari...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WFieldsRemindsSafari/llnnh/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:43 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976759hitchhikerReminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had nothing to live on but food and water.Virginia Woolf - Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums...http://www.englishforums.com/English/VirginiaWoolfThoseComfortablyPadded-LunaticAsylums/llnng/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:43 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976758hitchhikerThose comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.Vasili Rosanov - With a rumble and a...http://www.englishforums.com/English/VasiliRosanovRumble/llnnz/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:42 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976757hitchhikerWith a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.Unknown - Quite a number of people...http://www.englishforums.com/English/UnknownQuiteNumber/llnnv/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:41 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976756hitchhikerQuite a number of people also describe the German classical author, Shakespeare as belonging to the English literature, because quite accidentally born at Stratford-on-Avon, he was forced by the authorities of that country to write in English.Thomas Paine - These are the times that...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ThomasPaineTheseTimes/llnnd/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:38 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976755hitchhikerThese are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easilyTheodore Roosevelt - We can have no "50-50"...http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheodoreRoosevelt/llnnc/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:37 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976754hitchhikerWe can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.Sir Winston Churchill - The Americans will always do...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SirWinstonChurchillAmericansAlways/llnnb/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:37 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976753hitchhikerThe Americans will always do the right thing ... after they've exhausted all the alternatives.Sir Thomas Browne - Every Country hath its Machiavel.http://www.englishforums.com/English/SirThomasBrowneCountryHathMachiavel/llnnr/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976752hitchhikerEvery Country hath its Machiavel.Sir Robert Baden-Powell - Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SirRobertBadenPowellSoftlySoftly-CatcheeMonkey/llnmq/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:35 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976751hitchhikerSoftly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.Sir Henry Morton Stanley - The Dark Continent, Africa.http://www.englishforums.com/English/SirHenryMortonStanleyDarkContinent-Africa/llnmp/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:35 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976750hitchhikerThe Dark Continent, Africa.Rudyard Kipling - Our England is a garden,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/RudyardKiplingEnglandGarden/llnmx/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976749hitchhikerOur England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing "Oh how wonderful" and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.Robert E. Hannegan - Ideals are the "incentive payment"...http://www.englishforums.com/English/RobertHanneganIdealsIncentivePayment/llnmn/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976748hitchhikerIdeals are the "incentive payment" of practical men. The opportunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries.Ralph Waldo Emerson - Every man has his own...http://www.englishforums.com/English/RalphWaldoEmerson/llnmm/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976747hitchhikerEvery man has his own vocation, talent is the call.Proverb - He sins as much who...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ProverbHeSinsAsMuchWho/llnml/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:32 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976746hitchhikerHe sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.Prince Clement Metternich - Italy is a geographical expression.http://www.englishforums.com/English/PrinceClementMetternichItaly-GeographicalExpression/llnmk/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976745hitchhikerItaly is a geographical expression.Pliny the Elder - There is always something new...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PlinyElderAlways/llnmj/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976744hitchhikerThere is always something new out of Africa.Philip James Bailey - America! half-brother of the world!...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PhilipJamesBaileyAmericaHalfBrother-World/llnmw/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976743hitchhikerAmerica! half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.Paul Robeson - In my music, my plays,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PaulRobesonMusicPlays/llnmh/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:27 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976742hitchhikerIn my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.Oscar Wilde - Perhaps, after all, America never...http://www.englishforums.com/English/OscarWildePerhapsAfterAmericaNever/llnmg/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:27 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976741hitchhikerPerhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - It is now the moment...http://www.englishforums.com/English/OliverWendellHolmesMoment/llnmz/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:26 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976740hitchhikerIt is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.Oliver Wendell Holmes - Good Americans, when they die,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/OliverWendellHolmesAmericans/llnmv/post.htmMon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:25 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:976739hitchhikerGood Americans, when they die, go to Paris.