Andrew Flintoff Quotes

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

Bilingualism used to have an undeservedly bad reputation; then it got an undeservedly exalted one.

I speak five languages, which actually makes it easier when you join a new team. You can settle much quicker because you can help team-mates much faster and better. People need to be careful around me, though - I can understand everything.

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

While I was doing Hindi, people there laughed at me because I couldn't speak Hindi and English properly.

Should people working in our country speak English? Yes, they should.

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

For one thing, my English isn't fantastic, and communicating in the dressing room is not always easy.

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

It's hard for me to perform in English.

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

English is not my first language.

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?' Yes I speak English. Yes, I can.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

Speaking Spanish isn't a benefit in Hollywood.

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

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

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same 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.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

I'm not very good at standard English.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.