Language Quote by Jairzinho Rozenstruik

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I…

— Anthony Geary

I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to…

— Lauren Mayberry

I lived in Holland for one year when I was younger and, although they speak Dutch there, I learned a little bit of English…

— Filipe Luis

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

— John Green

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

— Stefflon Don

I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because I'm Belgian,…

— Eline Powell

[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.

— George Thorogood

Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation - like…

— Elif Batuman

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when…

— Mel Brooks

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all…

— Tanit Phoenix

Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's…

— Yolandi Visser

I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of our cultural…

— Yolanda Hadid