Nikki Giovanni Quotes

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

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

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

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

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

Rapid acquisition of English should be the paramount goal of any immigrant language instruction program.

If you spend your time trying to learn English, you fall behind in your course content… I know because when I came here I could not speak English. So that was the idea of Congress when we passed bi-lingual education. But that was to only go on for a short time—one and one half years. But many of the bi-lingual education programs of today go on for year after year and they are destructive because the primary objective is to learn English.

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

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

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

If you want to work on the core problem, it's early school literacy.

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.

First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.

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

I co-founded Duolingo with the mission of bringing free language education to the world.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

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.

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

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Usage is the best language teacher.