Juan Manuel Fangio Quotes

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

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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.

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

I had to know at least two languages.

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.

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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.

English is not my first language.

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

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

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

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

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

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

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

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

I wish I knew more languages.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.