Nikita Thukral Quotes

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

Mom developed an interest in 'heritage-language education after noticing an increasing number of students in her UCLA classes whose parents were Russian.

I can read and write in Hindi.

I'd love to master another language properly.

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world.

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

I love Duolingo. I'm learning Spanish on it, and it's such a good way to pass time on flights or the bus.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

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

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.

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.

It's very difficult to write in Russian for someone who has never been schooled in Russian.

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

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

I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.

I learned English, French, Italian.

The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get to the age of 10, you pick up another language. I speak a bit of Russian, a bit of English, a bit of Spanish a bit of French.