“I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.” HumansFacesLanguagePoorClassExpressionSkillsInternationalAncientHuman ExperienceBourgeoisieTimelyUpper ClassSwedishCoquetryExtractionIntonationLanguage Skills Author:Erland Josephson
“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.” WellsChildrenKidsLanguageGrowsParentGrowing UpExampleSkillsViolentLenientLanguage Skills Author:Steven Pinker
“I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.” IfsFoundLanguageSkillsJournalismInvestigative JournalismLanguage Skills Author:Julian Assange
“No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.” PeopleIfsTwoAmericaLanguageDoubtSubjectsSkillsSixErrorsFollowingSentencesBeerNo DoubtTragicAgreementDeclineHighwaysTruckAlaskaVerbsSpellingSpongesGallonsSpillingLanguage Skills Author:Mike Nichols
“Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.” SchoolFoundOpportunityLanguageParentRichInformationCommunicationBabySkillsWorkersUniversityStreamsHelpfulSteadyDrsInfantBostonToddlerCo WorkerLanguage SkillsBoston University Author:Jane Brody
“Speaking Spanish and Japanese has opened doors in my career and helped me bridge cultural differences, both in my personal and business life. During my football career I realised quickly what difference language skills can make” LanguageDifferencesCareersDoorsFootballSkillsBridgesRealisedCultural DifferencesBusiness LifeOpened DoorsLanguage SkillsSpeaking Spanish Author:Gary Lineker
“For me making friends with locals is hard, mostly because my lack of Vietnamese language skills and being retired I have limited access to locals in the work place. Though for me it is hard meeting expats as well, as most expats work here and make friends through their jobs.” WellsHardJobsLanguageSkillsMeetingsAccessLocalsRetiredVietnameseMaking FriendsWork PlaceExpatsLanguage Skills Author:Doug Rice
“I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.” ThinkingKnowsArtistGirlLanguageDealsSkillsGunThreatThings To DoDo You KnowPullingGirl ThingLanguage Skills Author:Barbara Kruger
“Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.” WellsMeanChildrenFactsKidsLanguageParentTalkingEnvironmentSkillsGenesTalkativeLanguage Skills Author:Steven Pinker
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” PeopleThinkingMenInspirationalWritingBookLanguageWiseCommunicationDrinkSkillsCommunicateBeerCommunication SkillsTeamworkEulogyFamous WritersGood CommunicationWritten LanguageWriting WordsLanguage WordsGreat CommunicationLanguage And CommunicationLanguages CommunicationPlain LanguageClear CommunicationLanguage Skills Author:William Butler Yeats