Suzuka Nakamoto Quotes

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

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

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.

When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.

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

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.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

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.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

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

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 only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

I speak Italian, French, Creole and 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.

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

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

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world.

I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.