Eva Gutowski Quotes

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

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.

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

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.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

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

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

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

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

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

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

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish I had understood Italian.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

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.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

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 feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

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

In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cyprus. I was supposed to go to England, but at the last minute they transferred me, despite the fact that I spoke not a word of Greek. I learned the very basics, and to this day can say 'oil,' 'vinegar,' and 'boyfriend in America.'