Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.

I used to speak Italian.

I am taking Chinese lessons and I practice speaking Mandarin almost every day.

I would like to be a polyglot.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

Language is fun; it's fun to try.

Japanese is a very difficult language.

I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.

English is a very expressive language.

I have a few close friends with whom I can practice speaking Italian, but I mostly maintain fluency through reading.

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

I learned Spanish in five or six months.

I love the Spanish language.

I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more I realize that's definitely true.

I learned English, French, Italian.

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.