Learning Language Quotes

Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that kind of stimulation on its own. So that's a very important form of adversity.

One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

A different language is a different vision of life.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love literature and after graduating college, I kind of wandered around in Europe learning languages and writing novels and never led anywhere. And then I got into like journalism in New York as a way to kind of maybe find my way into the field and it wasn't a good fit. It just wasn't right for me.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

To be strategic in life is like any skill whether it's basketball or learning a language, it takes effort and practice and I think most people don't think that it's something that they could just do, you know, naturally.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Let your memory be your travel bag.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution. What has happened is that one species has developed, and the genetic structure of this species happens to involve a variety of intricate abstract principles of linguistic organization that, therefore, necessarily constrain every language, and, in fact, create the basis for learning language as a way of organizing experience rather than constituting something learned from experience.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.