Kurt Elling 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.

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

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

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.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

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

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can't be another 'Feliz Navidad.'

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

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 can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

I love dabbling in various genres and languages.

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene.

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

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

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

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.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

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.

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!

In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

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.