H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Having a larger vocabulary the day you walk into kindergarten is advantageous.

My English is improving because I learnt it in one year at Leicester, before it was just in school and on holiday, but I have to learn more, I don't understand it all.

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'

I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.

If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.

From the earliest moments of life, children begin to learn the fundamentals of language. The most powerful influence for effective language development are the verbal interactions with caregivers.

I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.

We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.

To read is to have experiences; every book changes my life at least a little bit. The first time I can remember this happening was when I was 10, with a biography of Thomas Edison.

Both the quantity and quality of the words children hear during their first three years of life make an enormous difference in how prepared they are to start school, and ultimately, their long-term achievement.

I pick up languages fast.

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.

I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my Hindi speaking friends, I'm getting better at the language.

Most people understand that the more words children are exposed to, the stronger their vocabularies will be. But fewer people are aware that the quality of the words also significantly affects brain development.

My English isn't that good, maybe just 40 per cent fine by normal standards.

No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a book. By this fact alone, we can conclude that readers are nicer people, at least until they put the book down. When we are reading, we are better.

I want to speak better English.

I write like a two-year-old, and I can't spell.