Sarah Alexander Quotes

It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.

I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries.

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

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.

When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I decided I was going to go to Japan and learn Japanese.

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

Every year, I send 1,000 students to China to study Chinese history, language, and culture.

One day, I would like to go over to Spain to play just to see what it's like and to experience that.

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

I've worked a lot in Europe, particularly Spain, which I like very much.

When I got to college, my sister was starting work, and she realized she had two weeks of vacation a year, so she called me and said, 'Go abroad.' So right after my freshman year, I went and I studied in Guatemala, and I studied in Kenya, and I studied in Italy, and it was incredible.

When I was studying in Canada, we were so free.

I learned a lot in Spain.

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.

I had to stay in school before I started travelling overseas.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

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.