Richard H. Davis Quotes

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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

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

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

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

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

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.

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish.

I think we should have a President who is fluent in at least one language.

I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.

I had to struggle with the language. I can understand Hindi now, but I still can't communicate. And things get lost in translation; I feel rejected all the time.

English is not my language.

I can speak a bit of German.