Learning Language Quotes

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  • A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

    "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.
  • Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.160
  • I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

  • Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

  • To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.

    Source: dilanka.cc
  • Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

  • Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that kind of stimulation on its own. So that's a very important form of adversity.

    Source: dilanka.cc
  • It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

    Vocabulary   Doe   Body  
  • A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

  • Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

  • Let your memory be your travel bag.

    "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.
  • Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

    "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111, 1969.
  • One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

    School   People   Proud  
  • If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  • A different language is a different vision of life.

    Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution. What has happened is that one species has developed, and the genetic structure of this species happens to involve a variety of intricate abstract principles of linguistic organization that, therefore, necessarily constrain every language, and, in fact, create the basis for learning language as a way of organizing experience rather than constituting something learned from experience.

    Source: chomsky.info
  • Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me.

    New York   Book   Writing  
    Source: dilanka.cc
  • It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

    Brain   Language   Cases  
    "Michael Gove proposes teaching foreign languages from age five" by Patrick Wintour, Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
  • I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

    Reading   Long   Together  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

    In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 September 1773
  • I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.293, Courier Corporation
  • Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

    Fun   Mean   Broken  
  • You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

  • Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

  • As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

  • Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.259, Ballantine Books
  • The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

    Teaching   Men   Language  
  • If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

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