Second Language Quotes

27 quotes by 27 authors

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging… — Lynn Abbey
Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin
Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical period closes, a… — Norman Doidge
Bryzgalov isnâ€™t just a running comedy act. Heâ€™s one of the leagueâ€™s most thoughtful players and the fact that he offers the insight he does… — Ilya Bryzgalov
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the… — Marilyn Hacker
Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. — John Abizaid
English is my second language. Laughter is my first. — Paul Krassner
Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. — Slash
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on… — W G Sebald
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes
In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around… — Gael Garcia Bernal
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
It doesn't matter what the income level of your family is, or if English is the first or second language. It makes no difference. The… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. - you fill… — Al Franken
The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences… — Jeffrey Kluger
English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films… — Bai Ling
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language. — Conan O'Brien
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language. — Christopher Walken
We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one… — Robin Williams
But even in the schoolyard I'd been aware of that silence, that reserve in him, as though he'd been raised by foxes and language was… — Patricia A. McKillip

Who Wrote These Second Language Quotes

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