Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

If you were to sit me down in a classroom, with fluorescent lights humming and some woman trying to teach me Italian, there's no way. But scream goes to Italy, we stay in a squat, and the only way you can ask someone where to take a piss is to do it in Italian. So I learned Italian.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

The globalized environment where speaking a lot of languages is rewarded and getting access to learning materials is easier. A talent for massive language learning has not been supported by the environment until very recently, so this is a phenomenon that is going to become more common and more visible.

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here.

I had to do a lot of studying 'cause I had to learn new languages all the time. So it was a little bit painful watching other kids play outside, and I'm stuck at home learning something.

I dream in Norwegian, I count in Norwegian so that basically makes me Norwegian now, I suppose.

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

Usage is the best language teacher.

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

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.

My formal education as an extension to my college degree in journalism was the time that I spent working with the student newspaper. I would argue that my greatest education occurred by working for the student newspaper. It wasn't necessarily the classroom work that made my formal education special. It was the idea that I had the opportunity to practice it before I went into the real world.

I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.