Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

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 might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

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.

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

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

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

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'm pretty good with languages.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

English is not my language.

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

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I wish I knew more languages.

I'd love to master another language properly.

I learned English, French, Italian.

I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

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

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

English is not my first language.