Joseph Sobran Quotes

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

I taught high school students Spanish.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

English language training is one of the primary preconditions and instruments to provide the implementation of Armenia's Armed Forces reforms.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

The English Language Amendment says above all, 'Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English. Let us not deny them the opportunity to participate in American life, so that they can go as far as their dreams and talents can take them.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

Foreign languages, I think they are important but I don't think it should be required because-actually I think they should be teaching you English and then teaching you how to understand double talk-a politician's double talk-not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and German, when am I going to Germany? I can't even afford to pay my rent in America, how am I going to Germany?

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

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.

When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What is your policy toward foreign students?" My reply was: "To me, all students are the same. I treat them all the same and hold them all to the same standards." The next semester there was an organized boycott of my classes by foreign students. When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.