Rose Leslie Quotes

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

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 have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

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

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

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 also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

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.

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

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

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

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

I'd love to master another language properly.

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

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

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

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

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.