Asghar Farhadi Quotes

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I can follow conversations, but I think it will take time to improve myself.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.

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.

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.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

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

It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style.

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

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.

People are getting more used to another language; that's how I learned English and Spanish. I listened to other singers and tried to sing with them. Of course, I studied it, and I took classes, but music helps me a lot.

I love to experience a new country's culture and history in a fun and memorable way.

I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.

I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

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've never really spoken French. I didn't do French lessons at school, so I'm starting from scratch.

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.