Rosemary Mahoney Quotes

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

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.

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

We learn English from fifth grade on in school, and I was an exchange student when I was 17 in Houston.

I went to study in Spain for a year after school. It was either that or Russian, so I went for the easy option. I love Spain and go quite regularly. I've done a bit of Spanish theatre.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us on French in fifth grade, which meant that by the time I graduated high school I had been at it for eight years.

When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

Every year, I send 1,000 students to China to study Chinese history, language, and culture.

The benefits of studying abroad are huge. You can pick up a new language, develop a love for another culture, and pick up new skills, hobbies and work experience to boost your CV.

I really want to learn French so I think it would be great to go and live in France and maybe learn the language for a few months.

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard.

When I got to college, my sister was starting work, and she realized she had two weeks of vacation a year, so she called me and said, 'Go abroad.' So right after my freshman year, I went and I studied in Guatemala, and I studied in Kenya, and I studied in Italy, and it was incredible.

I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.

I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

I had the opportunity to come to the United States of America as an exchange student, so I had to come for four months, work, and then go back.

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.