Degrees Quote by Paul Engle

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

— Tatiana Maslany

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

— Ella Maillart

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English…

— Cesaro

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

— Miranda Otto

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to…

— Susie Dent

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and…

— Daniel Everett

I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and…

— Till Lindemann

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort,…

— Michio Kaku

I learnt a lot in Germany, and the German mentality really helped me. It was an enormous step in my life.

— Roberto Firmino

I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was…

— Anna Funder