Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

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

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

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

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.

I’m bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

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

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

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 think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

I talk bilingual.

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

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

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

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

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.

The globalized environment where speaking a lot of languages is rewarded and getting access to learning materials is easier. A talent for massive language learning has not been supported by the environment until very recently, so this is a phenomenon that is going to become more common and more visible.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.