Arthur Helps Quotes

Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed!

Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.

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

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

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I like to be able to think in different modes. I like to be able to use the language a great deal and carry on rehearsals in French.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.

I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned my ABCs, they taught us our Aleph-Bet at the same time.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

I pick up languages fast.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

I can speak English, Portuguese, and a bit of Spanish, or Sportugal. It's a mix of Portuguese and Spanish. I understand French and Italian, but I can't speak them.

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

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

I have a weird obsession with people who can speak multiple languages. I'd love to be able to do that.

I learned English, French, Italian.