Top 100 Language Learning Language Quotes
#1. As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.
Steven Pinker
#2. I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person ... as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.
Jack Dorsey
#3. Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing.
Barbara Goldsmith
#4. When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.
Andrea Navedo
#5. You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
Geoffrey Willans
#6. new strategies in teaching and learning English language
Wilga Rivers
#7. The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.
Leonard Bloomfield
#8. For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
Fabrice Luchini
#9. Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
Yao Ming
#10. There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.
Maria Montessori
#11. There's no coincidence here; we learn better when we're having fun, and in looking for the fastest ways to learn, I naturally ended up with the most enjoyable methods. My favorite thing about language learning is this:
Anonymous
#12. We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell their life stories to others. Learning to be open to many layers of communication is a fundamental part of getting to know another person's life.
Daniel J. Siegel
#13. I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.
Mary Kubica
#14. Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.
Hank Johnson
#15. Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language - best to learn it as a child.
Lena Dunham
#16. Learning the love language of acts of service will require some of us to reexamine our stereotypes of the roles of husbands and wives.
Gary Chapman
#17. Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
Tim Ferriss
#18. [Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.
Lord Byron
#19. Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.
Robert Lane Greene
#20. I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.
Jonas Gahr Store
#21. I am learning the Language of the World, and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me ... even the flight of the hawks, he
Paulo Coelho
#22. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'
Melissa McCarthy
#23. My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
Andrew Bird
#24. In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
Walt Disney
#26. The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
Dan Buettner
#27. Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers ...
Tim Ferriss
#28. There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
Chris Gardner
#29. The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,
Yehuda Amichai
#30. Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. He's always been there. I can't remember starting school and not learning about him.
Jamie Campbell Bower
#31. You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.
Noam Chomsky
#32. After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
Hu Shih
#33. [R]epetition is as an essential element of language learning as a knife is to a lathe or fuel is to an internal combustion engine.
Kato Lomb
#34. The journey of learning the secret language of dreams is fascinating and well worth the effort.
Pamela Cummins
#35. Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
Luke Harding
#36. I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.
Matthew James Thomas
#37. Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.
Rick Strassman
#38. Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems.
Michelle Obama
#39. Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in prison in anticipation that it would help him lead the whole of South Africa.
Robert Lane Greene
#40. All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
E.F. Benson
#41. All the things you put off, like learning to play the piano or leaning a different language? You're like, what's the point? I'm not really gonna do that, am I?
Leslie Mann
#42. I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
Gail Simmons
#43. At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.
Kato Lomb
#44. The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
Jeffrey Kluger
#45. Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.
Neal Stephenson
#46. My interest is a lonely one. I cannot trot it out at cocktail parties. I feel sometimes as if I have spent a large part of my life learning a dead language that no one I know can speak.
Anne Fadiman
#47. Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
Patricia Hill Collins
#48. Whoever said dogs can't speak was never interested in learning another language.
Mark Winik
#49. Learning a language is not interesting than knowing how it works.
Ritesh Shrivastav
#50. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis
#51. Learning a language is like getting inside somebody's mind.
Anonymous
#52. Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.
Richard E. Pattis
#53. Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.
Stephen D. Krashen
#54. Learning medicine consists in part of learning the language of medicine. A deeper understanding of judgments and choices also requires a richer vocabulary than is available in everyday language.
Daniel Kahneman
#55. Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
John Milius
#56. A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
Alan Perlis
#57. 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.
Erin Morgenstern
#58. Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.
Pearl Zhu
#59. Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
Timothy Keller
#60. Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.
Brian Kernighan
#61. Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#62. Double your life experience by learning a second language.
-Taru
Taru Nieminen
#63. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Alan Perlis
#64. To look it at another way, surely there are many unfortunate people who have needed to undergo multiple stomach surgeries. Yet no one would hand a scalpel over to them and ask them to perform the same surgery they received on another person, simply because they themselves had undergone it so often.
Kato Lomb
#65. I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#66. When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose ... Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult ... is only a slow sewing it shut.
Jodi Picoult
#67. That's so," said Eliza. "Vacation ends next month. I start Latin this year. They say it's awful. You decline nouns. All _I_ can say is, who wouldn't?
Edward Eager
#68. Learning to "find my place in the world" translates in the practical language of life as "finding my little slot in the big State machine.
Anna Sofia Botkin
#69. Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.
Guy Davenport
#70. In classes, the more lively and uninhibited ones will "suck away the air" from those with a more passive nature, despite all the efforts of the teacher. It is also a special danger in large groups that you will hear your fellow students' bad pronunciation more than the teacher's perfected speech.
Kato Lomb
#71. Teacher, school administrators and parents will come away from Life-Enriching Education with skills in language, communication, and ways of structuring the learning environment that support the development of autonomy and interdependence in the classroom.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#72. I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored.
Natalie Standiford
#74. In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.
Ron Jaworski
#75. If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.
Benny Lewis
#76. I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.
Elizabeth Little
#77. It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
Samuel Barnett
#78. My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.
Kato Lomb
#79. I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.
William Stafford
#80. A werewolf. He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right.
Tielle St. Clare
#81. The grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.
Mary Kingsley
#82. Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.
Richard P. Feynman
#83. Raymond collected expressions. He repeated them in experimental accents, as if learning a tune. He sounded like an Eighteenth Street Mexican when he said cuate, like a Logan Square cubano when he said comemierda.
Sebastian Rotella
#84. Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection between the words "village" and "age" whatsoever.
Jakub Marian
#85. Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
Alfred North Whitehead
#86. Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself.
Judith Butler
#87. I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?
Jake Gyllenhaal
#88. Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in a hotel over Christmas. It is most certainly not the reason why it is called 'hotel', but it will hopefully help you remember that the stress is actually on the second syllable.
Jakub Marian
#89. I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me
Paulo Coelho
#91. Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren't human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occupations of the rich and mighty?
Ursula K. Le Guin
#92. It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
Edward Sapir
#93. It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.
Kevin Jorgeson
#94. Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it.
Jakub Marian
#95. Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.
Storm Jameson
#96. I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that.
David Rees
#97. [T]he time spent on language learning is lost unless it reaches a certain - daily and weekly - concentration.
Kato Lomb
#98. It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
Bo Derek
#99. Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.
-Aunt Beast
Madeleine L'Engle
#100. Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you
Munia Khan
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