G. Willow Wilson Quotes

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

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

Each language is a different lens from through which you view the world. So, learn as much as you can!

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

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

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

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

I have a funny accent in every language.

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

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.

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

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 have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

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

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.

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 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.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I speak to the Spanish players that we have in Spanish.

I talk bilingual.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.