Joshua Foer Quotes

I learned English, French, Italian.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

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

I'm pretty good with languages.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

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

I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.

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

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

I had to know at least two languages.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

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

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

I forced myself to watch Spanish TV and listen to Spanish radio all the time. I think I'm lucky because, for whatever reason, people from the Balkans seem to have a talent for learning languages.

I pick up languages fast.

I wish I knew more languages.

I'd love to master another language properly.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

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.