Alexa Chung Quotes

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

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.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

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.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

I lived in Paris for two years with my family. I would roam the streets of Paris during the day for a few hours in the subway, on the streets, and I listened to the French language, and I got a sense of the rhythm and the melody of the language.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.

Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean. I was not always. When I got to Korea, I was constantly put on TV shows not knowing what was going on. So that forced me to learn Korean so I could stop looking like an idiot.

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 go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I can follow conversations, but I think it will take time to improve myself.

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.