Jim Rohn Quotes

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

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.

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

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

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

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 grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

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

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I think it keeps your brain moving faster, singing in another language.