Quotes About Multilingualism

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

I speak fluent Kosovan.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

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

I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Acts 6 reflects the challenges to maintaining a community of equals that confront any multicultural, multiethnic, and multilinguistic community.

I am therefore Italian, completely and with pride. But if I could, I would descend into all languages and let myself be permeated by them all. Even the terrible Google Translate consoles me. We can be much more than what we happen to be.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

My father was a nobleman when he spoke his mother tongue, and a worker from the lowest class when he went over into French. Except

I only know English, so I feel like I can be the dopest French rapper ever if I learned French.

I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.

I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

An utshebe zavadyenye may be out of the question, but there's not a barishnye who wouldn't like to be znakome with Zola, Pushkin, or dazhe Gorky …" So she says to me, my beauty, half in Yiddish and half in Russian, although the Russian was more like two-thirds.

Just remember,' Mary told the children, 'when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do

And Philippe won't speak English. She's sure he can - he's got that European je ne sais quoi that usually means "Oh, I speak six languages. And a little Japanese.

I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to say 'hello' in Dutch, and it did not work. People were just like, 'What?'