Bayard Taylor Quotes

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

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard.

I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more I realize that's definitely true.

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

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

I think that learning Burmese has to have been one of the most challenging things that I have had to do for a movie.

Learning German will be always kind of hard to me. But I'm getting the basics right.

I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.

I've been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It's a slow process, but I'm trying.

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.

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

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.

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

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

I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

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.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.