Petra Kvitova Quotes

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

If a child cannot speak English the first day at school, that child is not ready to learn.

If you spend your time trying to learn English, you fall behind in your course content… I know because when I came here I could not speak English. So that was the idea of Congress when we passed bi-lingual education. But that was to only go on for a short time—one and one half years. But many of the bi-lingual education programs of today go on for year after year and they are destructive because the primary objective is to learn English.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my Hindi speaking friends, I'm getting better at the language.

When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

One of the first things that my English teacher told when I began studying in New York was, "You're here because if you pick it up from the street, not everyone speaks good English." And it happens all the time, anywhere. If you pick up Spanish from the streets, you're not going to be able to speak it correctly.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

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

It's hard for me to perform in English.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

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.

English is not my first language.

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

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.