#foreign language

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#foreign #foreign languages #i #just #know

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#few #foreign #foreign languages #go #had

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#arabic #areas #behind #chinese #combined

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#foreign language #language #life #life is a #men

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#degree #foreign #foreign languages #i #knowledge

If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities? ↗

— Harold Ford

#attend #challenging #contributions #country #enrichment

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise. ↗

— Ibrahim Rugova

#am #around #concerned #current #current situation

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. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#english #foreign #foreign language #i #i love

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! ↗

— Harry Hopkins

#damn #dumb #dumb people #excellent #foreign

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. ↗

— Yao Ming

#america #basketball #culture #difficult #foreign