Flora Lewis Quotes

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

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

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

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.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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.

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

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

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

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 speak African. I can even speak Italian.

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

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.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

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

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.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

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

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.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.