I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
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 don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.
I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
Speech happens to not be his language.
My English is very bad.
The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.
I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.
My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards.
Americans' scandalous incompetence in foreign languages also explains our dangerously inadequate understanding of world affairs.
Quite often people ask me 'Is there a word for... ' and go on to highlight a gap in our language that we need to fill.
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.
