Denny Laine Quotes

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

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.

The globalized environment where speaking a lot of languages is rewarded and getting access to learning materials is easier. A talent for massive language learning has not been supported by the environment until very recently, so this is a phenomenon that is going to become more common and more visible.

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

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

I live out of my suitcase and I'm happy to do so.

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

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

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

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

I am a free man. I feel at home everywhere in Europe.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

I'm kind of a gypsy, so I love living out of a suitcase and going from place to place meeting people.

I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

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've always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking and doing accents and things like that.

The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

When I'm home, I still live like I'm traveling. I have nothing in my refrigerator.