John Abizaid Quotes

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

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

I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard.

English is not my first language.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

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

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

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

Rapid acquisition of English should be the paramount goal of any immigrant language instruction program.

English language training is one of the primary preconditions and instruments to provide the implementation of Armenia's Armed Forces reforms.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

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

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.