Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

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.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

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

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

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

The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

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 learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

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

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

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.

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

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

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.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.