Learning A New Language Gifts

'Of course he's smiling. In your best high school French, you just ordered Champagne for the entire hotel.'

"Even here in Tibet?"

"I don't see why I have to learn this stuff! It's knowledge I'll never need! As long as you're here to translate for me."

Nadolig Llawen

"And the last little piggy cried, 'Oui, oui, oui' all the way home."

Pirate boy reciting the alphabet

He kept up his guitar practise...

'Do you think he's ready for the big round-up?'

"You and your, 'why bother to learn another language. Everyone in the known universe speaks, Zarconian'!"

Restaurant Francais: All you can pronounce £30.

Kid with messed up project in Wood Shop, titled: 'Wouldn't Shop'

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

Man packing suitcase with French vocabulary

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

"We've decided that it will be better for his later development if we speak to him only in legalese."

"He doesn't really talk yet, but he does some sound bites."

Wishing Well, Wishing Good.

"We’ve nailed guitar-solo-face. Time to try playing instruments."

"Is this the first time you've been fishing?"

"How do you say ‘Where is the bathroom’ in Sanskrit?"

"No sweetie, it’s a beurk not a book."

'Who teaches apostrophe usage?'

'Stick them up...'

'Your stab at ordering the wine in French went well.'

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

"He just said his first word!"

"You can use the alphabet to text. You can use the alphabet to tweet. Why can't you use the alphabet to spell?"

"Letters would be all right if they'd just let us leave them in alphabetical order."

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

"My master's vowel hyperarticulation is wearing a bit thin..."

'Now, what's Italian for pizza?'

'This is the fun part...waiting to find out just what we've ordered.

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

"Wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . . wa-wa. . ."

With the aid of a tactical dictionary, and was finally able to make sense of what the salesman was saying.