I speak Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, and English.
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.
I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.
I speak Hebrew excellently.
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.
To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.
I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example.
I'm pretty good with languages.
I think the one thing humans are is language wizards.
My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.
When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
