Gary Jennings Quotes

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.

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.

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

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

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

All the arts: military, religious, mechanical and astrological, which gave them [the Aztecs] of the stars. For this they possessed large, beautiful books painted in hieroglyphics, dealing with all these arts which were used for teaching.

I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.

I don't speak fluent Spanish. I took it in college.

I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

I know Sanskrit, which has similarities with Tamil, so it helps me understand the language.

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.

Latin is an international language.

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

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.