Aymeric Laporte Quotes

Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English.

I learned how to speak English watching television.

My English is improving because I learnt it in one year at Leicester, before it was just in school and on holiday, but I have to learn more, I don't understand it all.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

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.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.

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

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.

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

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

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.

English is not my first language.

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

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.

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.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

I speak Hebrew excellently.

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

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.

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

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

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

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