QUOTES ABOUT LEARNING LANGUAGES

1. 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 - Nelson Mandela, South African politician
and Nobel Peace Prize laureate

2. A different language is a different vision of life Federico Fellini, film director and
scriptwriter
3. To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world
Chinese proverb

4. You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language,
you live only once Czech proverb

5. Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and
where they are going Rita Mae Brown, American writer

6. To have another language is to possess a second soul Charlemagne, medieval

emperor

7. Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the

character and growth of its speakers Cesar Chavez, American civil rights activist

8. Learning a foreign language not only reveals how other societies think and feel, what
they have experienced and value, and how they express themselves, it also provides a
cultural mirror in which we can more clearly see our own society Edward Lee
Gorsuch, former chancellor of the University of Alaska

9. Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and statesman

10. You can never understand one language until you understand at least two Geoffrey
Willans, English author and journalist

11. One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the
way Frank Smith, American psycholinguist

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher
13. Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom Roger Bacon, English
philosopher

14. One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is
two people - Turkish proverb

15. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but
learning another way to think about things - Flora Lewis, American journalist

16. 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 Frank Smith,
American psycholinguist

17. Learning a new language is like starting a new life Michel Bouthot, teacher and
multidisciplinary artist

18. Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world Rumi, Persian poet

19. Langague shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about
Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist

20. We should learn languages because language is the only thing worth knowing even
poorly Kat Lomb, Hungarian interpreter and translator

21. It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks
in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning Michael Gove, British
politician

22. The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language
Jules Michelet, French historian