Foreign Language Quotes - Page 2

• Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

  Rumi

  Yoga, World, Language

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• Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

  Neil Simon

  Giving, Mind, Chance

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• There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Fun, Purpose, Why Not

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

  Joseph Epstein

  People, Training, Musical

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• I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Future, Mean

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.159, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.

  Richard Riley

  Strong, Today, Helping

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• Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

  Marcel Proust

  Beautiful, Book, Language

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• I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

  Jack Dorsey

  Art, Math, Thinking

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• If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Language, Knows, Ifs

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• When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Tongue, Language, Translate

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• The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

  Jane Asher

  School, Knowing, Long

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• I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial learning process. The things we now do automatically, such as perspective, pencil control, values and composition were as unfamiliar and intimidating as a foreign language.

  Ted Martinez

  Determination, Frustration, Perspective

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• One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.

  Gregory Rabassa

  Two, Would Be, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not going to play someone too far from who I am. Although I did a movie where I played a killer, and that has yet to come out. But that's someone I love being able to shock people with. I could do something you would not expect me to do. My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.

  Greg Grunberg

  Love Is, People, Language

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

  John Milton

  Daughter, Tongue, Language

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• People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.

  Ken Robinson

  Mother, Cutting, Technology

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• I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

  Peter Høeg

  Mother, Two, People

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.316, Macmillan

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• The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Snakes, Circles, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

  Chuck Thompson

  Vocabulary, Keys, Games

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• When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.

  Annie Dillard

  Country, Real, Names

  Annie Dillard (1988). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, Harpercollins

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• There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

  Robert Greene

  Writing, Mind, Ease

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

  Amos Oz

  Latin, Language, Nordic

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in Russian, not English since there are few readers who've master foreign languages well enough to buy foreign editions.

  Alexander Vassiliev

  Fashion, Book, Russia

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who have fake Twitter and Facebook accounts. Why not create ten fake Libyan Twitter users and then get one journalist to follow them. But the problem is, of course, it corrupts the entire process. One of the caveats is that anything they write is going to be in a foreign language so it won't affect Americans. But that doesn't make any sense because: A) it can be translated pretty easily, and B) Americans also speak other languages.

  Michael Hastings

  Writing, Fake, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've translated two of Bae's novels, A Greater Music and Recitation, which are coming from Open Letter and Deep Vellum in October and January respectively. A Greater Music is a semi-autobiographical book centred on a Korean writer moving to Berlin, learning to live and even write in a foreign language.

  Deborah Smith

  Book, Moving, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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