“Moderation is like a foreign language. You have to learn that shit when you're young.” — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks. — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts,… — C. V. Raman 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
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
“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 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I was only 19 when I came to Hoffenheim. Everything was new to me - a strange country, a foreign language. That… — Roberto Firmino Copy Share Image
Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been… — Jon Gnarr Copy Share Image
“I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where… — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, in the field of second and foreign language teaching, behaviorist pedagogy—i.e., direct instruction in various forms—maintains a large following, which seems… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you look at the Oscars and look at the Best Foreign Language series, you see that the films are coming from… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in… — Anton Newcombe Copy Share Image
“She read on and on, enraptured. She could not understand half, but it excited her oddly, like words in a foreign language… — Antonia White Copy Share Image
“I have since tried out this human-beings-as-nothing-but-radio-receivers theory on Paul Slazinger, and he toyed with it some. "So Green River Cemetery is… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
“MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS? ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS. MY FRIEND:… — KanyaACoffman 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
I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. — Fabrice Luchini Copy Share Image
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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