Kenny Omega Quotes

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

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

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

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.

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.

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.

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

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

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

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

I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

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

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

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

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global.

The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don't learn any foreign language.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.