Mark Lanegan Quotes

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

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 grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

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.

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 still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

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!

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.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

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

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

I'm not exactly an example of how to learn English; I just can't get it into my head. I'm learning hardly anything, truth be told.

I wish I knew more languages.

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

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

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

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

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

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

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