English Language Proficiency Quotes

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

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together, and it was fantastic.

There is no question of the government or myself attaching less importance to the use of English.

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent.

Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I'm acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

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

Speaking fluent English - like doing long division or successfully rewiring a 220-volt electrical outlet - is not a skill you're born with. It's something you learn, occasionally even by opening some old dictionary.

In this era of globalisation, I believe that the only way to push the Philippines forward is to focus our energy on improving English, mathematics, science, and technology.

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.

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

I barely speak English.

The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.

Now I speak English.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

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.