Max von Sydow Quotes

I'd love to master another language properly.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

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

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

The Malayalam connection has always been there and finally I am trying to learn the language to be active here as well.

English is not my language.

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

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.

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

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

Usage is the best language teacher.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

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

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish.

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