Quotes About Language

I have a huge connect with South. My father can speak fluent Tamil. He studied in Bengaluru. My brother studied in Kodaikanal. I am familiar with the South.

Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.

Some people say 'flutist.' Others say 'flautist.' I just say 'flute player.' That's what I was.

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

Once a story is set to a particular city, language and culture, the rest just follows.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

We footballers don't address one another as 'My dear.'

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.

It's always nice to have somebody with the same accent when you're working in a foreign country.

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

I have some classes in accounting, but I don't know anything about accounting. I - you know, when my accountant tells me all the things he does, it's a foreign language to me.

I just want to say that 'Minari' is about a family. It's a family trying to learn how to speak a language of its own. It goes deeper than any American language and any foreign language.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

I believe in form and the manner of what you say being as important as the content of what you say.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.