Quotes About Language

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

With Singaporeans, you speak English, you're well-educated, the doors open everywhere.

Occasionally, well-intentioned legislation can fall apart because of a few misplaced words or technical language that was left out.

I'm well-read as far as literary fiction, but I wanted to make better decisions about my writing, to use words or phrases more confidently by learning how your words can be interpreted, the shades of meaning, the different connotations.

And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

When a director from Hindi cinema is looking for an actor from another language, it will be only because he feels the character justifies this and that can only be for a well-written character.

I've spoken with a few employers who have moved away from what has to be some of the least attractive language you could use about health risk to start talking about wellbeing.

Words matter. I encourage everyone to consider the meaning of their words from another person's point of view, as well as the consequences of how our own words can impact the wellbeing of others.

All my friends are Welsh, I speak Welsh, and I feel very Welsh.

In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born - Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together, we picked up each other's accents. And we spoke some broken English. When I got into the service, people used to think I was from a foreign country.

At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.

I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that hasn't happened.

I always speak Welsh to my family.

As a Welsh speaker, I'm very conscious of how activism can effect real change.

I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up.

John Hartson, he speaks fluent Welsh and has the tattoos all over him to prove his Welshness. But in my own world, no one is more Welsh than myself.

The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

That's acting for you. 'White Queen' has English playing Welsh and vice versa.

I just go broad Welsh when I'm nervous.

I lived next to Russian soldiers. We had Russian army guys in our house when I grew up. We made lemonade for them; they were everywhere. I had a Russian school. I grew up with Russian traditions, I know Russian songs... it infiltrates me a lot. I even speak a little Russian.

I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.