Jodie Comer Quotes

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

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

I would like to speak 10 languages.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

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

I'm pretty good with languages.

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

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.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

I wish I knew more languages.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

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

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

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

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.