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I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is 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.

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

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

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.