78 Quotes About Language-learning

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty

While one lives in a foreign country, language's main function is as a means of self-protection and a weapon in one's fight with the world. You can't fight without a weapon. But perhaps its human instinct that makes it even more imperative to somehow express oneself, convey meaning, connect with others.

Languages, just like people, are worlds within themselves. They have the incredible ability to provide us with a clearer, more profound and detailed perspective of a culture and its views on life, nature, and death.

My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. There’s no better way to learn a language than by immersing yourself in a culture where it’s spoken, and there’s no better way to immerse yourself in a culture than by learning to speak the local language.

Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.