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.
About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.
My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass
Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.
So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
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.
The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American.