When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that… — Petr Cech Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or… — Ethem Alpaydin Copy Share Image
I've always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Never invite someone who is speaking a foreign language in your presence to "Go back to your country." The only time that… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes,… — Becky Lynch Copy Share Image
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“Elimae was a magician with a key in her mouth, a foreign language, a matryoshka doll: uncomplicated on the surface, but with… — Kirsty Logan Copy Share Image
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
“Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“Am I the star in this story or you?” Blake wrinkled his nose and chuckled. “Was that a bad analogy? I meant… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“At first when you're learning a foreign language, what seems strange is that a different set of words exists for the things… — Stephanie Grant Copy Share Image
“The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller… — Georges Limbour Copy Share Image
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“in a foreign language. Linguists have called this epistemological law the “principle of charity”; it requires that when we are confronted with… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me.… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
