Angelina Jolie Quotes

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world.

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

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.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

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

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

I learned English, French, Italian.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

Miami is America’s most diverse city… We have 140 languages we speak..

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.