Jessica Alba Quotes

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.

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

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

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

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.

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

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

I wish I knew more languages.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

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.

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.