Tim Scott Quotes

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

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

I use Mandarin, Korean and English on a daily basis and usually only use Cantonese when I'm speaking with my relatives. I don't think it's very difficult for me to switch between each language because I've been doing it for so long.

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

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

I wish I knew more languages.

I studied Hindi in school and that's come in handy.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well as English. And I speak a little bit Japanese because I've had the opportunity to work alongside Japanese people. And a little bit of German, a little bit of Portuguese because of work. A little bit of French because of work. But then, if you asked me to carry-on an everyday conversation, I would fail miserably.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

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