Morfydd Clark Quotes

English is not my language.

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

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.

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

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.

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

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

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

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.

I realize that the wish to write in a new language derives from a kind of desperation.

To the Tamil media, I have mostly interacted in English since I am not fluent in Tamil.

I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

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.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.