John Grant Quotes

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

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

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.

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

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

Learning German will be always kind of hard to me. But I'm getting the basics right.

I learned English, French, Italian.

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

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

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.

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.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

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

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

I've been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It's a slow process, but I'm trying.

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

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

Learning the Italian was tough. I tried to really come at from a purist perspective, really learn the grammar, syntax and conjugations.

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.