78 Quotes About Language-learning

The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.

Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries.

She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.

He agreed that I should buy another dictionary or, better yet, a phrase book with standard Spanish expressions. He also suggested that it would be a good idea if I learned to stammer, because people would get bored listening to me and would finish the sentence for me; this way my accent wouldn't be noticed.

Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!

Еспанська мова хоч і легша від інших, але теж хоче, щоб її попереду вивчено.

Lydia's English is a help, but there are many different languages in el norte. There are codes Lydia hasn't yet learned to decipher, subtle differences between words that mean almost, but not quite the same thing: migrant, immigrant, illegal alien. She learns that there are flags that people use here, and those flags may be a warning or a welcome. She is learning.

The great enemy of foreign language learning is a sense of shame, an inability or unwillingness to become like a child again and let one's inadequacies show.

Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language