Roald Hoffmann Quotes

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

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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

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

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

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I had to know at least two 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.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.

I talk bilingual.

I do speak a bit of Bengali.

I wish I knew more languages.

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

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.

I learned English, French, Italian.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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

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.

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.