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I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'. -- Cher
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. -- Khaled Hosseini
I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects. -- Luc Sante
I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time. -- Ann Coulter
My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner." -- Daniel Goldston
But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant fine, go to the back of the line, but they can then stay here and they can have the ability to enforce a minimum wage that they're paid, make sure the worker safety laws are available, make sure that they can join a union. -- Barack Obama
When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English. -- Jack Ma
I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. -- Jet Li
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. -- Vivien Leigh
Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him. -- Jamie Campbell Bower
First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English. -- Noam Chomsky
I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning. -- Chiaki Kuriyama
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis. -- Rafael Nadal
If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning. -- Zooey Deschanel
English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England! -- Dan Castellaneta
In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better. -- Luis Garcia
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language. -- S. I. Hayakawa

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