Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

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

I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

I moved to New Jersey when I was five, and I lived there for about six years. My dad was allocated to the New York branch of his company. Looking back, I'm so grateful because I got to learn both English and Korean at the same time, and it was just so natural for me, and it made it so much easier to study English afterwards.

By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.

My mother is a Telugu, so I have been familiar with the language since childhood.

If something interesting comes up, I would love to do something in Bangla in future, especially since I can speak Bangali fluently.

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

I read everything from comics to magazines to fiction - I learned to read in English, years before being able to speak a word of it, by reading 'National Geographic.'

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

I learned English, French, Italian.

I've been working in three-four languages. I'm happy to do it.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

I am self-educated from genre books.

If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per week translates into about 50 books per year. 50 books per year will translate into about 500 books over the next ten years.

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.