Language Ability Quotes

Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently.

I speak fluent Kosovan.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.

The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I've been working in three-four languages. I'm happy to do it.

I don't speak fluent Spanish. I took it in college.

I would absolutely be down to do something in Spanish.

I speak as much Spanish as anyone who has grown up in Southern California or Texas or Arizona. I had my three years of high-school Spanish and a couple of semesters in college.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

I speak Vietnamese and conversational Spanish.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

I speak Hebrew excellently.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

You know what's crazy about Yao? He speaks perfect English. A lot of people don't know that. Perfect English. When I was over there, I called him. He's like, 'Whassup big fella?' Perfect English!

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of the human population which has the right neurological equipment for learning and using lots of languages. That equipment may serve only a sub-component of language learning, such as mimicry, pattern recognition, or memory, or it serves those sub-components in a global fashion.