#languages

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#country #languages #learn #own #people

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

— Ella Maillart

#few #foreign #foreign languages #go #had

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#also #because #become #being #both

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#differ #differences #example #for example #languages

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

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#amazing people #amazing things #career #get #had

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#course #expected #i #interesting #languages

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. ↗

— Anne Rice

#ancient #beginning #greek #i #i am

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

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