123 Quotes About Languages

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

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.

English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I flirt with my species. English is the language through which I make my species think.

The attitude of English speakers to foreign languages can be summed up thus: let’s plunder, not learn them.

A new language is a gate to a new life, a new style, a new rhythm, a new feeling, and a new spirit.

But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from a language unrelated to English is nothing to do with equivalent words. Whenever I'd tried to do that in Chinese I'd come out with unbroken nonsense. I had to forget the English, hang the meaning up in a well-lit gallery, stare at it hard, then describe it afresh.

What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.

Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like Women."~ Nagasawa