Thomas Mars Quotes

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

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

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.

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

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

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

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

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

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

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