Petr Cech Quotes

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.

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

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.

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.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

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

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

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

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

Language is no barrier. I watch Telugu movies, and I really enjoy them.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

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

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.

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

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

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.