David Dewhurst Quotes

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.

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.

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 grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

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 don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

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 speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

Learning German will be always kind of hard to me. But I'm getting the basics right.

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.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

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

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

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

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

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.

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.