Language Enthusiasm Quotes

Vin Diesel is crazy, and when I say crazy, I mean it in a good way. He's crazy about Latinos, and he's not even a Latino. He even wants to speak Spanish. I told him we should do a song together, and he said he was shy. But I said, 'I'm no actor, but I'm acting in front of you. I wasn't scared.'

I never met a word I didn't love

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

I'm a real big fan of words.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.

I love the Spanish language.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

I'm a bit nerdy about accents. I love it.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

Whenever I overhear someone talking in Telugu, be it in the market or any random place, I get excited.