Craig Thompson Quotes

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no 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 actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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

English is not my language.

I can speak a bit of German.

I'd love to master another language properly.

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

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.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

English is not my first language.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

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.

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.

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

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

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

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

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