Foreign Language Quotes - Page 6

• French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Language

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• When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not academic." I'm not very competitive, in terms of acting. But since going back to university, I've realized, I am highly competitive.

  Nick Offerman

  Italian, Years, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

  Lil Wayne

  Language, Speak, Speak The Truth

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from Jun 15, 2012

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• 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.

  Jacques Derrida

  Language, Speak, Mathematician

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.115, Stanford University Press

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• Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

  John Millington Synge

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.18, Northwestern University Press

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• Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

  David Mitchell

  Language, Prison

  David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• My neighbor has two dogs. One of them says to the other, "Woof!" The other replies, "Moo!" The dog is perplexed. "Moo? Why did you say 'Moo'?" The other dog says, "I'm trying to learn a foreign language."

  Morey Amsterdam

  Funny, Dog, Humor

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• I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

  Bill Gates

  Stupid, Chinese, Wish

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• Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.

  Peter Newmark

  Exercise, Order, Two

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• Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.

  Dan Wells

  Thinking, Impossible Things, World

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Hands, Differences

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• Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

  John Brown

  Mother, Body, Tongue

  Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction

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