Quotes About Linguistics

I speak fluent Spanish. I also speak Italian and I was once pretty decent at German.

Alec's Spanish is getting better and better. His accent is very good.

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Speaking French is good for me and also a mark of respect for the PSG institution.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

I'm fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.

In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.

It's one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.

I think the hardest accent for me to do is what I end up trying a lot of times, and it's like some sort of a general American sound. So not Southern and not east-coast or west-coast, but just a general American sound that no one really speaks, actually.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.