Foreign Language Quotes

82 quotes by 74 authors

Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy… — Michael Gove
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but… — Jacques Derrida
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I… — Michio Kaku
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education… — Judith Martin
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. — Christopher Morley
After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in… — Paul Nurse
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which… — Ibrahim Rugova
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think… — John Millington Synge
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated… — Kristin Scott Thomas
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that… — Arabella Weir
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this… — Jeanette Winterson
Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is â€˜grabbing a burger at the Hard Rockâ€™ supposed… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My subconscious speaks in a foreign language. — Deb Caletti
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 air scented with… — Laurie Halse Anderson
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do,… — Paulo Coelho

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