Anthony Geary Quotes

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

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

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

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

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

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

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

English is not my first language.

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

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

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

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

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 don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.