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I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. -- Andy Lau
I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages. -- Azim Premji
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. -- David Crystal
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English. -- Lev Grossman
Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. -- Amos Oz
He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. -- KatÃ³ Lomb
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby. -- Jeff B. Davis
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. -- Victor Hugo
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. -- Naguib Mahfouz
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult. -- Rafael Nadal
english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar. -- James Nicoll
The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. -- Amos Oz
The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures. -- Marshall McLuhan
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- Booker T. Washington
I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages. -- Peter HÃ¸eg
Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work. -- Masiela Lusha
I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie? -- Jake Gyllenhaal
In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so. -- William Golding
An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match. -- Junot Diaz
When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones. -- Khalil Gibran
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." -- -- Sydney J. Harris
Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C -- Eric S. Raymond
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages. -- Richard Stallman
It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line. -- Cary Fukunaga
Eddie Izzard is doing his show in French... Will he be able to fake ad-lib as well in other languages? He's been speaking French for a while now, but he's talking about doing his act in German. Haven't the German people suffered enough? -- Andy Kindler
The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language. -- Anne Carson
When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense. -- Hassan Blasim
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. -- James D. Nicoll
If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset. -- Guido van Rossum
Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages. -- Donna Tartt
I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language. -- Max von Sydow
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. -- Martin Heidegger
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. -- Frank Capra
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. -- Diane Wakoski
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. -- Yehuda Amichai
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. -- A. E. Waite
England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages! -- Miranda Otto
Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands. -- Om Puri
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable. -- Zebulon Pike
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages! -- Sergei Bubka
Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. -- Preston Manning
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. -- Emile M. Cioran
I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other. -- Rhys Ifans
If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss. -- Anderson Cooper
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives. -- Ntozake Shange
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. -- Roland Barthes
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. -- Jean de la Bruyere
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I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. -- Lizzo
The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other. -- Richard Leakey
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation. -- Kenneth E. Iverson
But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl . -- Larry Wall

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