linguistic abilities Quotes

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

I speak Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, and English.

I've got a little baby, I made him...He doesn't speak, he's 2...He's a slow learner, he's only got 2 words...car and map...I'm slightly worried he's trying to escape. If his next word is passport we are in serious trouble!

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.

I don't talk very well. With writing, you've time to get it right. Also I've found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn't write no one would want me to talk anyway.

I'm Language Gal. I can speak any language presented to me. And I look exactly like Halle Berry.

Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem with them doing my dialogue in English. And it wasn't a matter of fluency.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

All dogs seem to be great linguists, according to their owners. They always understand every word that's said to them.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well as English. And I speak a little bit Japanese because I've had the opportunity to work alongside Japanese people. And a little bit of German, a little bit of Portuguese because of work. A little bit of French because of work. But then, if you asked me to carry-on an everyday conversation, I would fail miserably.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.