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Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

~Concha Buika

Topics: Cannot Care English Know Proper Sing Speak Sure

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I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

~Connie Francis

Topics: Day English Grandmother Hired Hours Italian Just Learned Me Professor Recordings Remembered She Songs Speak Stayed Taught Then Who Word 24 Hours

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I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Countries Difficult English Figure Good Good Thing Immigration Most Native Out Thing Think Tongues Way I Think A Good Thing

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My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.

~Corin Tucker

Topics: Children English English Language Given Language Love Me Parents Passed Reading Something

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I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

~Corneille Ewango

Topics: English French Grew Speak Up

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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

~Cornelia Funke

Topics: About Always Approve Conversations English Example For Example Names Read Translation Translator

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Every German child learns to speak English in school.

~Cornelia Funke

Topics: Child English Every German Learns School Speak

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The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get to the age of 10, you pick up another language. I speak a bit of Russian, a bit of English, a bit of Spanish a bit of French.

~Costa Ronin

Topics: Age Another Bit By The Time Educational English Foreign Foreign Language French Get Language Part Pick Program Russia Russian Spanish Speak Studying System Time Up Way Works You

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I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

~Cote De Pablo

Topics: Actually Arabic Couple Dabble English Fluent German Languages Russian Spanish Speak

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I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

~Craig Ferguson

Topics: After Argument Dropped English English Teacher Had High High School Huge Meaning Meaning Of Out Over School Teacher Word

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