Second Language Acquisition Quotes

The President [George W. Bush] speaks Spanish almost as well as he speaks English.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.

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

I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard.

French was my first language.

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.

I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish.

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 think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

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'.

Foreigner: A person whose native language is not English.

I am mastering my Hindi.

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.

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 only halfway paid attention in high school Spanish class, and it may be too late now to catch up, no matter how many levels of Rosetta Stone I order.

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

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

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

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

I speak Hebrew excellently.

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