Frank Herbert Quotes

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.

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

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

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

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

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

I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.

The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I'm talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the afternoon. I even think in Spanish when I get angry!

I wish I knew more languages.

Each language is a different lens from through which you view the world. So, learn as much as you can!

I studied Hindi in school and that's come in handy.

I think in French, but I get angry in Spanish.

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

It's good to be around an English manager.

I grew up learning Russian and translating English songs when I became a teenager, we got to listen to West Germany radio stations, and learning lyrics with picture book. These are my first experiences with the English language.

When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

Usage is the best language teacher.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well as English. And I speak a little bit Japanese because I've had the opportunity to work alongside Japanese people. And a little bit of German, a little bit of Portuguese because of work. A little bit of French because of work. But then, if you asked me to carry-on an everyday conversation, I would fail miserably.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.