Gavin Esler Quotes

I'd love to master another language properly.

I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.

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.

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

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 speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

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

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.

English is not my language.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

I wish I knew more languages.

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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

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 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.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

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

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.