It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages personal relations and multi-tasking but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Basketball in America is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

I never found accents difficult after learning languages.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history languages literatures the higher mathematics or what you will - are all gone.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols coding and debugging testing and refactoring.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

There is the fear common to all English-only speakers that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise you know why not just come out and say it?

When you grow up in a family of languages you develop a kind of casual fluency so that languages though differently colored all seem transparent to experience.