Virginia Woolf Quotes

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

All the youth ..., who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it be set to learn ... until they are able to read English writing well.

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

I would like to speak 10 languages.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

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.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

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

With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

I speak Hebrew excellently.

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

I'm pretty good with languages.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

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

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I would have studied English, but I really don't like to read.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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.