Steven Wright Quotes

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.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

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

I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.

Learning German will be always kind of hard to me. But I'm getting the basics right.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

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

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

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.

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.

If you spend your time trying to learn English, you fall behind in your course content… I know because when I came here I could not speak English. So that was the idea of Congress when we passed bi-lingual education. But that was to only go on for a short time—one and one half years. But many of the bi-lingual education programs of today go on for year after year and they are destructive because the primary objective is to learn English.

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

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.

I love Duolingo. I'm learning Spanish on it, and it's such a good way to pass time on flights or the bus.

I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up.

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

I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.

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.

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.

I'd love to master another language properly.

I've been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It's a slow process, but I'm trying.

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