Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

I loved teaching English and giving my students confidence.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

If you love language, it will love you back.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

I think speaking English is beautiful.

I spend a lot of my time just looking at words and grammar and writing things down that I don't know.

I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.

I learned Spanish in five or six months.

I speak to the Spanish players that we have in Spanish.

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.

I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.

Whenever my friend says something cool, and especially if my team says something, like a cool line in English, I'll write it down, and maybe I'll rephrase or use in a different way or something.

The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I'm talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the afternoon. I even think in Spanish when I get angry!

I think in French, but I get angry in Spanish.

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

When I go to different countries, I want to know how to at least say hello and thank you. Language is a great hobby.

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

It's always lovely to know new languages.

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

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.

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