Petr Cech Quotes

I learned English kind of late. I remember when I got my first opportunity to work in America, I didn't speak a lot of English, so I only really knew my lines for the movie I was doing.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

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

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.

English is not my first language.

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

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

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

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 learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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.

People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.

I want to learn English.

English is not my language.