John Grant Quotes

French was my first language.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I wish I knew more languages.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

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

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

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

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.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as languages. And I find that to be central and very, very helpful. I think if you're not really cognizant of what every single word means, I think that might be a little tricky.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

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

Increasingly, over the past ten years, I've come to take the view that a cultural perspective is intrinsic to the future of language teaching and learning, especially in the case of English, as it becomes increasingly global.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

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.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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.

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.