Language Frustration Quotes

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.

The word trill really REALLY bugs me! Like who made that up???

Zoë threw up her hands in exasperation. "I hate this language. It changes too often!

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it's really horrible. Eighteen years ago, I played a mute in one film because I couldn't speak Mandarin. There was another film where I had to speak Vietnamese. It's horrible!

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

I hate that word, 'quirky.' It's like the worst f - king word in the world.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words.