Words matter. These are the best Foreign Language Quotes from famous people such as Roberto Firmino, Tituss Burgess, Katya Zamolodchikova, Maureen Forrester, Ray Romano, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was only 19 when I came to Hoffenheim. Everything was new to me – a strange country, a foreign language. That was not easy at the beginning. Europe was a big adventure to me, and of course I had my doubts.
To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It’s a trait that I’ve never had. And that I hope I never, ever have.
I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.
Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard.
I have some classes in accounting, but I don’t know anything about accounting. I – you know, when my accountant tells me all the things he does, it’s a foreign language to me.
The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.
Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don’t understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.
After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.
Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.
Visual art is a foreign language I’m fluent at, but my native language is language.
Any time there is a film in a ‘foreign language,’ in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it’s usually not an American film. It’s usually from another country.
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.
Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You’d be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
Good, well-defined, well-honed art is not a foreign language. You can sell it to people. You just have to move your ego out of the way, clear out the unfinished fantasies you have about being an artist yourself, and just sell it.
Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.
The language skill in the U.S. for the most part has been awful. Many Americans don’t learn any foreign language.
The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
I just want to say that ‘Minari’ is about a family. It’s a family trying to learn how to speak a language of its own. It goes deeper than any American language and any foreign language.
French is a foreign language, but I’ve been speaking it since I was 18 so it’s second nature to me.
It’s important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you’re not brought up with it.
‘Arrival’ talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It’s more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.
My grandmother, if she were still alive, she’d be very proud that I held through and did a film in Korean and didn’t compromise and then start using that foreign language of English.
I’ve had Republicans come to me and say, ‘Tell me how I should talk to young people!’ as if it’s some foreign language or something.
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
I don’t know Bengali perfectly. I don’t know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I’ve always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
I’ve always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking and doing accents and things like that.
Just classic immigrant story – I mean, child of immigrant story – did not grow up with cable and so felt constantly like I was being spoken to in a foreign language when I would go to school. And people would be like, did you watch this? Did you watch that? I’d be like, no, but I did watch ‘SNL.’
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.
I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you’ve studied, how do you say ‘doorknob’?
I really like acting in French. It’s actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It’s fun acting in a foreign language. You’re liberated or freed from preconceptions.
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.
I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., then a conservative, provincial city. Anglophilia was the first foreign language I was exposed to. Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people. Or maybe it was an early manifestation of homohood.
I’ve never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.
They are damn good projects – excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there – God damn it!
For a while, I was a flight attendant. I lived in New York, and I was a bartender. I took cooking classes, martial arts classes. I taught a foreign language. I went back to college and studied acting, which I love. I was doing stunt work as well.
