About Quote by Noam Chomsky

There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how…

— Alan Jay Lerner

My parents have always had a very limited command of English. Of course, when we first arrived in the UK, none of us spoke…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

— Alan Jay Lerner

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

— Ha Jin

“There is nothing intrinsic in the English language that made it attain such prominence. It is far from easy to learn. (A recent study…

— Minae Mizumura

We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able…

— Selma Fraiberg

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this…

— Jodi Picoult

Unlike our neighbours on the mainland of Europe, we have resisted creating an academy to legislate over proper English. We each have our linguistic…

— Susie Dent

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

— Andrew Solomon

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in…

— Michael Gove

We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some…

— Ralph Fiennes

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no…

— George Bernard Shaw