123 Quotes About Languages

Is it strange to say love is a language Few practice, but all, or near all speak?

Kay and Beverly were a disappointment to me. They worked hard at Modern Languages, but their conversation and preoccupations seemed hardly different from those of girls who might work in banks or offices.

I must speak a language that nobody else speaks. A language which was created solely for me.

It took seven languages to make me; it would have been nice if I could have spoken just one. But I couldn't, so he leaned down and kissed me.

The secretary of education recently unveiled an initiative for curriculums to place more emphasis on history and language. Within the decade, proficiency in at least three languages will be required of all American schoolchildren by graduation. And along with its other recommendations, the CDC has issued a promulgation that every U.S. citizen “unplug” for at least two hours each day.location 6374

Az anyanyelvnek nem árt, ha a véletlenszerűségei megmutatkoznak más nyelvek nézőpontjának tükrében. Éppen ellenkezőleg: ha az anyanyelvünket egy másik nyelv segítségével, azaz egy más látásmóddal szemmel tartjuk, az egy újra és újra megerősített bizalomhoz, hitelességhez vezet, erőfeszítés nélküli szeretethez. Az anyanyelvemet soha nem azért szerettem, mert jobb lett volna másnál, hanem azért, mert a legjobban ismertem és a legmélyebb bizalom kapcsolt hozzá.

A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it

We Americans are reluctant to learn a foreign language of our own species, let alone another species. But imagine the possibilities. Imagine the access we would have to different perspectives, the things we might see through other eyes, the wisdom that surrounds us. We don’t have to figure out everything by ourselves: there are intelligences other than our own, teachers all around us. Imagine how much less lonely the world would be.

I speak languages with more ease than I read or write them, she explains. It is something in the feel of the sounds. I could attempt to put them on paper but I am sure the result would be appalling.