Jim Rogers Quotes

I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.

I'm pretty good with languages.

I can communicate what I want to in Tamil, but I can't express myself in the language very well.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

Now I speak English.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

I understand German; I can read German.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

I'm not very good at standard English.

I have a good ear for languages.

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

I speak some dwarvish.

Those English and Scottish know how to do accents.

I had to know at least two languages.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

Japanese was so popular that the thinking was that if you could not master Japanese, you would not be able to become a scientist

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

I want to speak Spanish fluently; that's on my bucket list.

I seem to have a bit of a knack for accents; I can pick them up quick enough.

I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.

I pick up languages fast.