Danica McKellar Quotes

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

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

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

English is not my language.

I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up.

I can speak a bit of German.

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

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.