Obcy Englisch:

I'm a stranger here.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

A stranger asked the girl whether her father was at home or at his office.

There is a tendency for Japanese to want to know a certain amount of personal information about someone such as age, position and whether they are married or not, before they feel comfortable talking with a stranger.

I asked him to come with me, for I was a stranger in that part of the city.

Just before the wedding, the drunken father shouted at the groom: "I won't hand out my daughter to some stranger!"

My therapist told me to go to a bar and strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.

If a stranger on the street slapped me in the face, I'd kill him without warning.

You hear about a lot of incidents these days that would be hard to dream up. It really backs up the old saying that fact is stranger than fiction.

So. Having had all that done to him it would be stranger if he wasn't enraged.

A stranger tapped me on the shoulder from behind. He must have mistaken me for someone else.

I had an interesting talk with a stranger on the train to London.

Like other novelists, Walter Streeter was used to getting communications from strangers

He was a complete stranger to me. (On był dla mnie kompletnie obcy.) She doesn't let her children talk to strangers. (Ona nie pozwala swoim dzieciom rozmawiać z nieznajomymi.)

My friend is a great guy but he is so shy. You can't imagine how difficult it is for him to start a conversation with a stranger.

What does "resident alien" mean?

A lot of people believe that aliens will come from Mars to invade our planet.

It is possible that there are alien beings on other planets.

The alien came in peace.

I believe that an alien intelligence is watching the Earth.

It had an effect alien from the one intended.

The alien shot his ray gun and blasted a hole in the spaceship's hull.

If we ever came in contact with an alien race, how would we communicate with it?

Do you believe in aliens?

It's an anime about a normal Japanese schoolboy who married his alien teacher. Things like this happen in Japan.

Why do aliens in films always have green skin?

Britain is having difficulty dealing with a flood of illegal aliens.

He comes from another planet, so he is an alien.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of non-European aliens enter our continent, Europe.

The immigrants brought a lot of alien customs with themselves

I like foreign languages.

Japan's gold and foreign exchange reserves stood at $68.9 billion at the end of 1998, down from $77.0 billion a year earlier.

Japan's foreign aid is decreasing in part because of an economic slowdown at home.

How many foreign visitors do you have every year?

Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.

Foreign direct investments in China amounted to $3 billion last year.

Foreign businessmen living in Tokyo often complain of the high prices for imported western food.

Of these, Taoism is a native religion, the others having been introduced from foreign lands.

How should foreign exchange rates be shown? In the foreign exchange market they are displayed centered on the American dollar.

It warms your heart when, while listening to a song in a (seemingly!) foreign language — Slovak, Macedonian, or Slovenian — you hear words that you have known since your childhood and even understand whole phrases.

I've never met anyone who was able to learn how to play basketball just by reading a book. The same holds true for learning foreign languages as well.

In foreign countries, especially in Western countries, students are encouraged to express and develop themselves as individuals.

The Bank of Japan is considered to have conducted a support buying of an estimated $1 billion on the Tokyo foreign exchange market.

While there are some people who use the Internet to learn foreign languages, there are others, living on less than a dollar a day, who cannot even read their own language.

If you pay attention to your foreign friends, you may be surprised that their customs and habits are different from yours.