J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as languages. And I find that to be central and very, very helpful. I think if you're not really cognizant of what every single word means, I think that might be a little tricky.

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

We must plow through the whole of language.

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

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.

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

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

Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.

I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.

You need to be able to find joy in something that requires so much of yourself. I have to have that deeper meaning in my work and in my everyday life.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.