I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking…

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

— Ted Martinez

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

— Aravind Adiga

“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place, this is…

— Jiro Adachi

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…

— Havelock Ellis

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population,…

— Ibrahim Rugova

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my…

— Nicholas Kristof

“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that…

— Kory Stamper

“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought…

— Georges Limbour

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and…

— Mary Norris

“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to…

— Steven Pinker

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign…

— Amira Hass

“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman