They share a room and are study mates, since their parents understand little English.

So first of all, she doesn't talk much, and second, she's just beginning to understand English.

Why do adults talk in front of kids as if they couldn't understand English?

I'd been hoping a lot of the crowd wouldn't understand English.

What a blessing it was to be able to understand English.

The twins also seem to understand English, even though they do not speak it.

He understood English, but could not read or write the language.

He was afraid that someone who understood English would come in and see the form.

"You can't get them to do tricks because they don't understand English."

If they had understood English, maybe the music would have won the war.