Cyril Connolly Quotes

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.

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up.

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.

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

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

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.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

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

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

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 ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.

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.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

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 was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.