Do you need more than a reason to learn a language?
Here are some good Insparational Quotes to find more than a reason to learn another language:
❝If you talk to a man in a
language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own
language, that goes to his heart.❞
‒Nelson Mandela
‒Nelson Mandela
❝One language sets you in a
corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.❞
‒Frank Smith
‒Frank Smith
❝The limits of my language are
the limits of my world.❞
‒Ludwig Wittgenstein
‒Ludwig Wittgenstein
❝Learn everything you can,
anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you
will be grateful you did.❞
‒Sarah Caldwell
‒Sarah Caldwell
❝Learning is a treasure that
will follow its owner everywhere.❞
‒Chinese Proverb
‒Chinese Proverb
❝You can never understand one
language until you understand at least two.❞
‒Geoffrey Willans
‒Geoffrey Willans
❝To have another language is
to possess a second soul.❞
‒Charlemagne
‒Charlemagne
❝Those who know nothing of
foreign languages know nothing of their own.❞
‒Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
‒Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
❝Language is the road map of a
culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞
‒Rita Mae Brown
‒Rita Mae Brown
❝Language is the blood of the
soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
‒Oliver Wendell Holmes
‒Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Those who know many
languages live as many lives as the languages they know.”
‒Czech proverb
‒Czech proverb
“Perhaps travel cannot
prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry,
and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we
may even become friends.”
–Maya Angelou.
“Pick a destination, go
there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go
where they go. You don’t need to be fluent, just as long as you’ve got a smile
on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff
they’re proud of.
–Jamie Oliver
“They wound their way
through a labyrinth of streets, partly following their noses, partly the
orientation of the map. Jardines, Mirasol, Cruz, Puentezuelas, Capuchinas…
Each word held its magic. They were like brushstrokes painting the landscape of the city, each one helping to build up a picture of the whole”
Each word held its magic. They were like brushstrokes painting the landscape of the city, each one helping to build up a picture of the whole”
– “The Return”, Victoria Hislop
“Muere lentamente
quien se transforma en esclavo del hábito
repitiendo todos los días los mismos trayectos,
quien no cambia de marca,
no se atreve a cambiar el color de su vestimenta
o bien no conversa con quien no conoce.”
quien se transforma en esclavo del hábito
repitiendo todos los días los mismos trayectos,
quien no cambia de marca,
no se atreve a cambiar el color de su vestimenta
o bien no conversa con quien no conoce.”
–Pablo
Neruda
“Eso de copiar cosas de
gringos es malo para el alma”
–”Eva
Luna”, Isabel Allende
«….les langues étrangères :
je ne pouvais pas m’ôter de l’idée qu’il s’y disait des choses trop
intelligentes pour moi. »
– “Chagrin d’école”, Daniel Pennac
« On commence à vieillir
quand on finit d’apprendre »
– Proverbe japonais
« Je suis certain que le
fait d’avoir quitté nos pays respectifs nous a permis d’être nous-mêmes»
–« Partir », Tahar ben Jelloun
“Ahora ella podía decidir
qué se decía y qué se callaba. Qué se afirmaba y qué se negaba. Qué se daba a
conocer y qué se mantenía en secreto, y en ese momento ése era su principal
problema. No sólo se trataba de decir o no decir o de sustituir un nombre por
otro, sino que al hacerlo se corría el riesgo de cambiar el significado de las
cosas. Al traducir, Malinalli podía cambiar los significados e imponer su
propia visión de los hechos y, al hacerlo, entraba en franca competición con
los dioses, lo cual la aterrorizaba.”
– “Malinche”, Laura Esquivel.
…the only normal way to begin
speaking in a new language is to begin speaking badly!! –Greg and Angela
Thomson, Growing Participator Approach
Never make fun of someone
who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
–H.
Jackson Brown, Jr.
Learning languages is like
learning history from the inside out. It encompasses the battles of ethnicity,
religion, compromise, politics. So much can be learned from language because
it’s been shaped by history.
–David Webb, The Bourne Sanction, Eric van
Lustbader
“My language is my
homeland”
– Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Poet.
"Cuando mente, cuerpo
y alma chocan... nace una lengua".
"When soul, body and
brain collide... a language is born."
–Franco Cartín Brenes, English teacher.
