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• I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language. — Richard Peck
• Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made… — Dave Barry
• Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign… — Yao Ming
• He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 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
• He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to… — Max von Sydow
• For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. — Unknown Author
• Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga
• Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of… — Akira Kurosawa
• The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino
• Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language,… — Maureen Forrester

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