78 Quotes About Language-learning

It is a curse not speaking languages and in a broken world more important than ever before.

My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.

To look it at another way, surely there are many unfortunate people who have needed to undergo multiple stomach surgeries. Yet no one would hand a scalpel over to them and ask them to perform the same surgery they received on another person, simply because they themselves had undergone it so often.

At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.

Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop.

There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

Freedom, one of the most important words in any language.