Alan Arkin Quotes

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

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.

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

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

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

For 'Vikings,' we have to do so much outside shooting, and it's normally - I think with American shows, it'll be 60 or 70 percent inside and a little bit outside, but with us, it's almost 70 percent outside, and that's huge and really difficult.

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.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

I think we should have a President who is fluent in at least one language.

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

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

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

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world.

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

I speak fluent Spanish. I also speak Italian and I was once pretty decent at German.

I speak Vietnamese and conversational Spanish.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

I learned English, French, Italian.