Claudio Ranieri Quotes

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

I find words really hard.

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

My English is very bad.

Japanese is a very difficult language.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

My French is terrible, and my Spanish is even worse. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German, it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

My Finnish is... I'm sounding like a three-year-old, at my best. It's super hard to really have a conversation, unfortunately. I know a lot of words, and so reading signs and stuff is becoming better, or going to a supermarket. But some specific words, of course, you don't get in your first year.

I want to speak better English.

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

I was a terrible English student.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

Language is fun; it's fun to try.

I would like to be a polyglot.

I'm not very good at standard English.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.