Brian Kernighan Quotes

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I wish I knew more languages.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

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.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

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.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

I studied Hindi in school and that's come in handy.

It's always lovely to know new languages.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

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.