Edward Norton Quotes

I'd love to master another language properly.

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.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

English is not my first language.

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

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.

I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

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

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.

The Malayalam connection has always been there and finally I am trying to learn the language to be active here as well.

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

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

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.

I am mastering my Hindi.

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.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

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