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I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
by Jon Secada (Musician, Cuban , born in 1962) keywords: bilingual, both, community, done, grew, languages, singing, up , while A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
by Anne Sewardkeywords: acquisition, attention, bestowed, cannot, compositions, countrymen, education, languages, masculine, necessary, professional, spare, study, time , which It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
by Ron Silver (Actor, American , born in 1946) keywords: activity, area, because, before, chinese, concern, history, human, involved, languages, made, reading, really, think, whatever , whole Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
by Alexander Solzhenitsynkeywords: always, bag, carry, countries, know, languages, memory, only, own, travel , your Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.
by John Millington Synge (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1871) keywords: another, bilingual, different, fair, favourite, foreign, idioms, languages, many, means, men, notion, speak, these, think , topic I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.
by Mike Thompson (Politician, American , born in 1951) keywords: ball, drawing, inborn, just, languages, learn, luck, most, painting, some, something, talent, think , throw I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
by J. R. R. Tolkien (Novelist, English , born in 1892) keywords: know, languages, life, short, such, take, things, thought, time, wants , wish In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
by Ivanka Trump (Businessman, American , born in 1981) keywords: always, anything, both, business, cultures, design, discover, else, every, evidence, food, found, inspires, jewelry, languages, life, more, over, personal, piece, scenery, sensibilities, than, travel , world 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.
by Booker T. Washington (Educator, American , born in 1856) keywords: beat, borrow, down, english, just, languages, new, occasion, other, pockets, pursued, rifle, their, them, unconscious, vocabulary , words It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.
by Mary Wesley (Novelist, British , born in 1912) keywords: awful, because, children, country, france, italy, keen, knew, languages, learn, local, mother, never, our, pretty, really, took, travels, us, well , west We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.
by John Whitehead (born in 1948) keywords: absolutely, already, british, children, ensure, essential, further, hard, languages, learn, other, place, put, recognized, strategies, will , working It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
by William Wiley (Soldier , American) keywords: available, communicate, concepts, confine, english, especially, image, languages, only, possibilities, speak, terms, these, why , yourself Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.
by Niklaus Wirth (Scientist, Swiss , born in 1934) keywords: analogy, another, belong, cannot, fallacy, languages, look, many, others, programming, religions, styles , tend Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
by Niklaus Wirth (Scientist, Swiss , born in 1934) keywords: am, approach, based, careful, come, convinced, development, effort, high, investing, languages, need, quality, recognized, safe, software, structured, time, using, will, worth , yet
