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  • They're on their way to the foreign-language wing. That's no surprise. The foreign kids are always here, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they'll choke to death on too much American.

    Couple   Kids   Air  
  • I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.

    Source: collider.com
  • Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

    David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.153, Hachette UK
  • I know American football. I know a little bit about soccer. I know baseball, I know basketball. But, rugby is a foreign language.

    Source: www.sheknows.com
  • As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

  • Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.

    Home   Thinking   People  
  • Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

    Dark   Night   Giving  
  • I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

    Book   Heart   Trying  
    "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Four (July 16, 1903), 1929.
  • My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

    Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
  • When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was the real and actual name of the thing, but that people in other countries, who obstinately persisted in speaking the code of their forefathers, might use the word "ibu," say, to designate not merely the concept hat, but the English word "hat." I knew only one foreign word, "oui," and since it had three letters as did the word for which it was a code, it seemed, touchingly enough, to confirm my theory.

    Country   Real   Names  
    Annie Dillard (1988). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, Harpercollins
  • A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

    "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.
  • Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

  • I think most Israelis prefer not to know. So for them, texts about the occupation are like something that's been written in a foreign language that they can't understand. If they want, you can translate it to them. But it is their choice. In general, though, I think Israelis don't want to know. Very few do. Basically, I write to the converted.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

    Men   Ignorant   Language  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.112
  • A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who have fake Twitter and Facebook accounts. Why not create ten fake Libyan Twitter users and then get one journalist to follow them. But the problem is, of course, it corrupts the entire process. One of the caveats is that anything they write is going to be in a foreign language so it won't affect Americans. But that doesn't make any sense because: A) it can be translated pretty easily, and B) Americans also speak other languages.

    Writing   Fake   Language  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

  • If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a foreign language by seven-years-old. We shouldn't be waiting until high school when they are neurologically not ready to learn it. Second, we emphasize reading too young.

    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.

    Exercise   Order   Two  
  • We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.

    Strong   Today   Helping  
  • The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

    School   Knowing   Long  
  • My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

    Children   Real   Coffee  
  • Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

  • Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

    Teacher   Children   Real  
    Source: www.neh.gov
  • Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

  • There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in Russian, not English since there are few readers who've master foreign languages well enough to buy foreign editions.

    Fashion   Book   Russia  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

    Source: collider.com
  • One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and punctuation and usage and foreign languages and literature but also your experience of travel, gardening, shipping, singing, plumbing, Catholicism, midwesternism, mozzarella, the A train, New Jersey. And in turn it feeds you more experience.

    Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company
  • The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

  • Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

    Mother   Body   Tongue  
    Horae Subsecivae Series I, Introduction
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