Tom Wlaschiha Quotes

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

I wish I knew more languages.

I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

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 was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

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

Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

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

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

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.