Bayard Taylor Quotes

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

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.

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've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

English is not my language.

Language is no barrier. I watch Telugu movies, and I really enjoy them.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

I wish I knew more languages.

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

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

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

English is not my first language.

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

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

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.