Barack Obama Quotes

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

English is not my first language.

Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.

Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us.

My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

I have a funny accent in every language.

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

In English, there is one word for sister. In Chinese, there are two separate words, for elder and younger sister. This is actually a translation problem because if you see the word sister, you don't know how to translate it to Chinese because you don't know if it's an elder sister or younger.

English is not my language.

No one can understand my accent!

In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses.

In India, when someone calls you sexy, they don't mean it as a compliment; it has derogatory connotations.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

I can't speak much Italian. I do go down well over there, but it's frustrating because I can't really speak it. Even if I do talk, they can't understand my accent, but I should try to learn it.

How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'?

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.