Tom Robbins Quotes

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

If something interesting comes up, I would love to do something in Bangla in future, especially since I can speak Bangali fluently.

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

Language is a social art.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

'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!

If you spend your time trying to learn English, you fall behind in your course content… I know because when I came here I could not speak English. So that was the idea of Congress when we passed bi-lingual education. But that was to only go on for a short time—one and one half years. But many of the bi-lingual education programs of today go on for year after year and they are destructive because the primary objective is to learn English.

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

I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.

You always speak the language you hear most.

Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean. I was not always. When I got to Korea, I was constantly put on TV shows not knowing what was going on. So that forced me to learn Korean so I could stop looking like an idiot.

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.

I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

I like languages. I like working on different accents. I speak English, French and Spanish. I'd love to learn more but I think, as you get older, your brain is a bit slower.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.