Martin Gore Quotes

I would like to be a polyglot.

I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.

I learned Spanish in five or six months.

I used to speak Italian.

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.

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 English is good because I have a good ear.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

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.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

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.

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.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

Japanese is a very difficult language.

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.

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 learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

I think we should have a President who is fluent in at least one language.

I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.

I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.