A Quote by Kristaps Porzingis

I pick up languages fast.

Kristaps Porzingis

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Fast Languages Pick Up

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Kristaps Porzingis
Latvian - Athlete
Born: August 2, 1995

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

Nargis Fakhri

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.

Daryl Davis

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

Salman Rushdie

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

Diane Cilento

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

Michael Korda

Being a South Indian, I think it was easier for me to pick up the languages on the go.

Pranitha Subhash

When I'm working in television, I've learned you've got to work fast. You don't have time to rehearse; you don't have time to just mess around. You've got to move quickly. So I pick that up from that world, and I also pick up the idea of development of character and development of situations.

Kenny Leon

I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I can only come up upon (as I disappear), a pirate upon buried treasure. The dreamer, the dreaming, the dream. I call these languages, languages of the body.

Kathy Acker

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I've inherited - that I can listen to things and pick them up.

Dervla Kirwan

I had only a few days in Bengaluru, which is why I could not pick up on the language even though I love to learn new languages.

Anupama Parameswaran

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

Zubin Mehta

I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.

Maisie Williams

The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

Amos Oz

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.

David Antin

Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable.