Sophie Dahl Quotes

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

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

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

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

I learned English, French, Italian.

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

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

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 speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

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

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.

English is not my language.

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

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

English is not my first language.

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

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.