Elie Wiesel Quotes

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.

If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.

If you can talk, you can write.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

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

If you spend your time trying to learn English, you fall behind in your course content… I know because when I came here I could not speak English. So that was the idea of Congress when we passed bi-lingual education. But that was to only go on for a short time—one and one half years. But many of the bi-lingual education programs of today go on for year after year and they are destructive because the primary objective is to learn English.

The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.

Be it Hindi or Hinglish, Zee was never and will never be speechless.

I feel my thoughts flow freely when I write in Kannada.

When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in English, for instance, it's sometimes hard to switch back to very simple talking, like I am forced to do in Finnish. So a real conversation, when I really wanna tell something, I can't do it in Finnish.

I have sung in all languages, and so every people know me - Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

Writing and speaking and communicating, it's something important to me, and something I want to get better at.

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

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.