Masiela Lusha Quotes

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

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

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.

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

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.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

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

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

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.

Translations are very important these days, since an average person can only know 2-3 three languages. We have so many languages in India and poems are being written in as many of them.

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

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

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

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Language is a social art.

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

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

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

Bilingual education doesn’t work, and it has never worked.

I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my Hindi speaking friends, I'm getting better at the language.