People learn English from 'Full House.' Candace's husband, Valeri Bure, he learned to speak English watching it... 'Aw, nuts.' 'You got it, dude.'
Knowing how to swim doesn't come from someone else showing you or someone else telling you or watching movies of other people swimming. It comes from having been in the water, knowing how to move yourself through the water and not sink. And it's true of virtually everything in our lives: knowing comes from direct experience.
I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.
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 learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.
When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were 'Hello' and 'Shut up.'
I learned English from watching American movies and American series. And you'd watch the movie the first time and not understand anything. Then you'd watch it again, and you'd start understanding more and more, and that's how I learned English.
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.
You learn more doing than doing training.
I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.
It was like baptism by fire. There was no school for studying acting. You just have to take it upon yourself to learn from your peers. It's about opening your eyes, listening, and watching.
I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.
I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.
It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'
One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.
The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.
The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.
My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.
The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.
