- Nov 07, 2020
English Quotes
On learning, teaching, and living in English.
This page brings together candid reflections on English as a second language, as a school subject, and as a field of study, including honest admissions about discomfort with certain roles or texts. It pairs naturally with our English Language collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt very English.
- Nov 07, 2020
One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
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- Nov 07, 2020