Learning Language Quotes - Page 2

• Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

  Kató Lomb

  Knowing, Language, Polyglots

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

  Roger Bacon

  Language, Language Learning, Conquest

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• 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

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Learning

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.259, Ballantine Books

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorry, Communication, Tongue

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 18 September 1773

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

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Important, Culture, Language

  "Language and Identity: An introduction". Book by John Edwards, 2009.

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

  Timothy Keller

  Baby, Listening, Firsts

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• 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.

  Fred Frith

  Vocabulary, Doe, Body

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

  Frank Herbert

  Training, Language, Delusion

  "Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111, 1969.

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Organization, Numbers, World

  Source: chomsky.info

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• 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.

  Luis von Ahn

  School, People, Proud

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• 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.

  Robert Greene

  New York, Book, Writing

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• 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.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Reading, Adversity

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• 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.

  Robert Greene

  Basketball, Thinking, Practice

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• 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.

  Deborah Smith

  Reading, Long, Together

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Lily King

  Real, Virginia, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Daniel Tammet

  Years, Skills, Long

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• 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.

  William Eggleston

  Reading, Language, Boring

  Source: entertainment.time.com

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• I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

  Vivien Leigh

  Language, Accents, Found

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