Alexa Chung Quotes

As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I can follow conversations, but I think it will take time to improve myself.

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

I've never really spoken French. I didn't do French lessons at school, so I'm starting from scratch.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

I work, play and do everything in French.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

I read French much better than I speak.

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.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.

I get excited when I sing in a new language.

Speaking French is good for me and also a mark of respect for the PSG institution.

Being able to incorporate my language into songs is really cool. It's really cool to see that people are susceptible to it. It helps with writing a lot to turn off one language and then go to another.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

A different language is a different vision of life.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.