Firsts Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

I learned English second, as a secondary language.

— Paul Raci

Being here in the United States, English is not my first language. It's kind of a challenge for me, a big challenge for my…

— Shinsuke Nakamura

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

— Ali Liebegott

Unfortunately, we're using the same language to talk about the language we'retalking about.

— Donna Jo Napoli

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

— Ethan Hawke

“English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.”

— Minae Mizumura

English is my third language.

— Park Yeon-mi

I'm just being honest about the fact that a second language won't resonate with you like the first does.

— Karin Tidbeck

“We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which…

— Saara Aalto

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new…

— Booker T. Washington