Lefty Gomez Quotes

English is not my language.

English is not my first language.

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

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

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

For one thing, my English isn't fantastic, and communicating in the dressing room is not always easy.

I find vocabulary to be a great drawback.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

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

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

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.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I barely speak English.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

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.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.

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

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.