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Foreign means something that comes from a different place or country. Foreign people are known as foreigners. Sven has a foreign accent. Foreign can mean something that is not familiar or not characteristic. Greed was as foreign to him as a Frenchman in China.

foreign

of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own) foreign trade a foreign office relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world foreign nations a foreign accent on business in a foreign city (= alien) not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something an economic theory alien to the spirit of capitalism the mysticism so foreign to the French mind and temper jealousy is foreign to her nature (= extraneous) not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source water free of extraneous matter foreign particles in milk

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Recently even students have come to visit foreign countries quite often.
I am learning two foreign languages.
Speaking of foreign languages, do you speak French?
To speak a foreign language is to break a boundary. To speak many languages is to break several. But to speak Esperanto is to want to break all at once.
He studied at a foreign university.
The foreign woman does not have an Italian name.
Knowledge of foreign languages stimulates brain activity.
I don't know any foreign languages.
Some people claim to be advanced in a foreign language, but in fact they make basic mistakes.
If someone was looking for a good tool for learning a foreign language, I would recommend Tatoeba to them.
Tatoeba is a very useful tool for people who study foreign languages. And not only for them.
Tom has a talent for foreign languages.
Foreign people intrigue me.
I find foreign languages very interesting.
It is important for you to learn a foreign language.
During the press conference, the President touched on foreign relations.
The foreign minister attended the talks.
The Foreign Minister said that war was inevitable.
I don't have a prejudice against foreign workers.
Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.
Speaking foreign languages is not easy.
It is almost impossible to learn a foreign language in a short time.
The best way to learn a foreign language is to go to the country where it is spoken.
Foreign people are amusing.
You seem to be prejudiced against ideas that come from foreign countries.
As a rule, Japanese people are not good at foreign languages.
The influx of foreign workers has caused a serious housing problem in this area.
It is difficult for foreign students to speak English well.

Movie subtitles

In contrast, by turning away from foreign trade and intensifying rice cultivation, the Chinese were stuck with rising population, falling incomes and declining nutrition, height and productivity.
It's like we've moved to a foreign country and nobody gave us a map.
The first is Pierre Leclerc, sniper, former member of the Foreign Legion, mercenary at present.
The absence of foreign and home fronts, as well as the enforced inaction, burdened Gusev.
The dragon ship is carrying foreign heroes to your shores!
Alfred Ney, a foreign political observer.
And in a foreign land - in Prague - a Cossack walks along a street, sweeping it with his wide trousers.
Only foreign museums.
Our former colleague who got into trouble with foreign currency?
ME, THE HEAD OF A COUNTRY, SNUBBED BY A FOREIGN AMBASSADOR!
Not a very courageous person, our foreign friend.
I'm Secretary to Sir Norman Wood of the Foreign Office.
Jill dear, this is Mr Gibson of the Foreign Office.
Have you heard of a foreign statesman called Ropa?
No one wants to settle on a foreign land that hasn't been completely pacified.
Take the foreign situation.
I understand that men are never asked why they enter the Foreign Legion.
There's a Foreign Legion of women, too.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and his last film, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent in 1940.
There are rumors that Your Majesty is planning a foreign marriage.
I am an ambassador on foreign soil.
In your great wisdom, you have put aside all thought of a foreign alliance. however brilliant.
I'm secretary to Sir Norman Wood at the Foreign Office. Oh, really?
Jill, dear, this is Mr. Gibson of the Foreign Office come to see us.
Has either of you heard of a foreign statesman of the name of Ropa? - I don't think so.
Why should we care if some foreign statesman. we'd never even heard of were assassinated?
We don't want to interrupt your chat. with the gentleman from the Foreign Office. but we think we ought to remind you that if you tell him anything. you will never see your child again.
The very brilliant agent. of a certain foreign power. is on the point of obtaining a secret vital to your air defense.
It's the Foreign Office.
Drugs deals have been financing dodgy US foreign policy for years.
The security of the Jeju forum will be tight. There is an uproar of news circulating among the foreign media saying that John Mayer is finally going to reveal his true self.
Yes. Forex service will also be open for foreign diplomats on the weekend.
I greet the high representatives of foreign states. who by their presence are participating in this day for their political parties.
And that it reports the truth about Germany. is the only demand that we place on the foreign press.
Maintaining the health of our farmers is the primary foundation. for the prosperity of industry. for German business and for foreign exports.
She was killed by a foreign agent who was interested too.
An important secret is being taken out of this country by a foreign agent.
A phony Russian policeman, an anarchist. was to get me into the Foreign Affairs Ministry. with 3 other temporary workers who were. to move a rug on which the Czar's bed would be placed.
It's not a foreign city but a city for foreigners.

News and current affairs

Instead, they focused exclusively on US foreign debt, ignoring household debt (mortgage and consumer debt), public debt, business debt, and financial debt.
If foreign financing is not forthcoming, yields on US government debt will rise and the US economy will fall back into recession.
As Ambassador to the United States and the UN, and later as Foreign Minister, he represented an Israel with which the world's liberal imagination could identify.
In addition, after visits by the French, British, and German foreign ministers, Iran announced a temporary suspension of its enrichment program.
European foreign ministers have already expressed their concerns about Iran's nuclear program.
Shell, the largest foreign operator in the Niger Delta, has been criticized repeatedly for its egregious practices and its unwillingness to be held to account.
In some of the poorest countries in the world - ie, those most dependent on aid - the IMF has argued that foreign aid should not be listed as revenue in a government's budget calculations.
The IMF's argument seems to be this: a country cannot rely on foreign aid because aid is too unstable.
The absurdity here is the idea that all foreign aid should be added to reserves.
If compensation for wrongs to the Palestinians was to be the guiding principle, there were always better ways of going about it than to found a rickety, poverty-ridden new country dependent on foreign aid.
If this constitution were accepted in anything like the proposed form, the EU would gain many attributes and trappings of statehood: its own president and foreign minister, its own legal system.
Though this is partially offset by foreign-exchange reserves, Japan now faces massive disaster-relief costs - and this on top of its depressing demographic trends.
It would create a trade area large enough to generate both local and foreign investment.
American foreign policy reflects that obsession.
Europe's main strength in foreign policy is not its commitment to a rules-based multilateralism, important as that undoubtedly is, but its unity.
But it does facilitate a full and rigorous public debate over key questions of a state's foreign and domestic policies.
In other words, US foreign policy spending is thirty times more focused on the military than on building global prosperity, global public health, and a sustainable environment.

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