Sami Portuguese Quote by Arto Paasilinna

“You said somewhere that you would like to write in one of the Nordic languages because they have more vowels, and vowels are more…

— Luis Fernando Verissimo

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

“In Hebrew and Aramaic the vowels have undergone vast modifications, whilst in Arabic they have retained to a large extent their primitive purity and…

— James John Courtenay

The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of…

— Katheryn Winnick

We south Indians are clannish and comfortable about our languages.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

— Liev Schreiber

Learning a new language is very, very different from doing an accent.

— Shira Haas

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

— Andy Lau

Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.

— Karen Bardsley

Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we…

— Jeffrey Kluger

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

— Francesca Annis