Juan Manuel Fangio Quotes

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

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.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

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 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.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

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

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.