Anchee Min Quotes

After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.

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 have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

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.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

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

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

I think English is very important for tennis players. To be on the tour, it's much more easier if you speak English. So that's why I knew that I have to improve my English.

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

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

My parents didn't speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the law.

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

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.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

I just wanted to have an education.

I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.

My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards.

I wish I knew more languages.

I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.

I wanted a new experience, to learn another language. I wanted to be different. I wanted people to realise I'm taking my coaching career very seriously. I wanted to create my own pathway.