Grazia Deledda Quotes

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

The Malayalam connection has always been there and finally I am trying to learn the language to be active here as well.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.

I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up.

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.

I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English, and they realize how far I have been able to go.

I studied Hindi in school and that's come in handy.

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

As I grew, I began learning and speaking a word or two in Bengali and that increased my friends circle.

I can't speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it's frustrating because I can't really speak it. Even if I do talk, they can't understand my accent, but I should try to learn it.