Robert Fitzgerald Quotes

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

It took me a while to grasp Kannada and Telugu.

I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.

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.

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.

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.

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 wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

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

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!

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

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally speak the language, and that is very important.

I do speak a bit of Bengali.

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

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!

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.