Eddie Vedder Quotes

English is not my first language.

English is not my language.

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

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

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.

I have a funny accent in every 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 also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

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.

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

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

I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

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

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.

It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

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