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One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

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 think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

My love of reading and the English language is something given to me by my parents, and I've passed it on to my children.

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.