Diane Cilento Quotes

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I have a good ear for languages.

I pick up languages fast.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

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

I'm pretty good with languages.

I forced myself to watch Spanish TV and listen to Spanish radio all the time. I think I'm lucky because, for whatever reason, people from the Balkans seem to have a talent for learning languages.

I have a weird obsession with people who can speak multiple languages. I'd love to be able to do that.

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

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.

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

I can speak English, Portuguese, and a bit of Spanish, or Sportugal. It's a mix of Portuguese and Spanish. I understand French and Italian, but I can't speak them.

I learned English, French, Italian.

I've been working in three-four languages. I'm happy to do it.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

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

I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

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.