English As A Second Language Quotes

I ended up majoring in English, which I'm not particularly fluent in.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong, tend to be people who didn't take S.A.T.s, or first-time voters, or people with English as a second language.

I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

When I first came to this country I could not speak English. Now I get paid to write it.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

I want to live in a Britain whose residents are determined to speak English.

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

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is not the English spoken in England or in America or even in Canada or Australia or New Zealand. The real English is the English which is a second language, so that it's rather like Latin in the days of the Roman Empire when people had their own languages, but had Latin in order to communicate.

I'm going to try to continue to try to speak English because I live in the United States.

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

Latin America must follow the education model, that allows children to handle the English language from a very early age.

I was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States with my family when I was 4. I spent most of my childhood in Chicago. My elementary school had no program in English as a second language, so I was placed in a class for students with speech impediments.

When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English.

Rapid acquisition of English should be the paramount goal of any immigrant language instruction program.

I learned how to speak English watching television.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

I remember my jaw would hurt because I wasn't used to speaking English all the time. Like how, even if you exercise, you'll play kickball one day, and then you're like, 'Wait, I run, but new places are hurting because I don't use my muscles this way.' My mouth was not used to making these sounds.

I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

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.