Priyamani Quotes

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

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

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.

English is not my language.

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

I wish I knew more languages.

I'd love to master another language properly.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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.

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

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

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

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

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 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.

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