Jay Samit Quotes

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

If you can talk, you can write.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

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

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

I'm not very good at standard English.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

It lies deep in our habits, confirmed by all manner of educational and other arrangements for several centuries back, to consider human talent as best of all evincing itself by the faculty of eloquent speech.

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

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!

When I was little, seven or eight years old, in third and fourth grade, I would always try to use long words and stuff.

Words do not necessarily make us moral. And there have been presidents before who have stumbled over syntax and looked foolish when the words they have been forced to speak have been their own. But Trump is uniquely stunted. A child listening to two of his speeches could reproduce a third without the use of a dictionary.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with