Lee Harvey Oswald Quotes

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

As I grew, I began learning and speaking a word or two in Bengali and that increased my friends circle.

My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here.

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

I think we should have a President who is fluent in at least one language.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global.

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I'm definitely a fan of giving a German-speaking team a German-speaking coach.

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.