Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

I pick up languages fast.

I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my Hindi speaking friends, I'm getting better at the language.

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

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

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

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

I can speak a bit of German.

I've been working in three-four languages. I'm happy to do it.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably 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've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

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

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

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

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.

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

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

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.