George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I'm not exactly an example of how to learn English; I just can't get it into my head. I'm learning hardly anything, truth be told.

I wish I knew more languages.

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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 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.

English is not my first language.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

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.

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'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

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

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!

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 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.

Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally speak the language, and that is very important.

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