“He who knows no foreign language knows nothing of his own” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you answer your Foreign Language teacher in English. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Screw technicolor, red, and foreign languages. I dream in status updates.” — Fierce Dolan Copy Share Image
I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language. — Katya Zamolodchikova Copy Share Image
“Would you rather take a sensible student, or someone who speaks a foreign language well?’ My” — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
“Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“Reading a book in the foreign language without using a dictionary? Are you sceptical? Don’t be! This is one of the keys… — Mihály Hevesi Copy Share Image
I take credit for all the good I have done and the worst , either way I'll take it in payments or… — Jennifer Amorelli Copy Share Image
“Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language,… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders… — Vallabhbhai Patel Copy Share Image
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
“The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a… — Peter Newmark Copy Share Image
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
“I don’t know,” I said, exasperated. “What else do you have in your wacked-out world? Heat sensors? Mine fields? Dirigibles? Booby traps?… — Delilah S. Dawson Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and books written… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Travellers at least have a choice. Those who set sail know that things will not be the same as at home. Explorers… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The more foreign to me, to my existence, to your core existence, the more foreign the foreign language, it's really moving to… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“You know the people who think seeing it in a picture is like seeing it in real life? Well, it’s not. Because… — Renee Carlino Copy Share Image
“The Word Wonder or dream from distant land I carried to my country's strand And waited till the twilit norn Had found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was difficult for Rumfoord to take Billy seriously, since Rumfoord had so long considered Billy a repulsive non-person who would be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects. — Richard Riley Copy Share Image
Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. — Vallabhbhai Patel Copy Share Image
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
Some People like to learn some language and mny thing in this world but they don't like to learn About God.. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
“Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
