Tucker Carlson Quotes

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

Let's see to it that our children, our young people, learn English.

I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.

Now I speak English.

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

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

I barely speak English.

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

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

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

I want to have roles in English.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

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.

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

I am learning English and can understand better than I can speak it. But having said that, I am learning as quickly as I can.

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

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

I've been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It's a slow process, but I'm trying.