Quotes About Languages Learning

#1. The Scots language is a mark of the distinctive identity of the Scottish people; and as such we should be concerned to preserve it, even if there were no other reason, because it is ours. This statement requires neither explanation nor apology.

J.Derrick McClure

#2. 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

#3. A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it

Ana Claudia Antunes

#4. My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.

Kato Lomb

#5. Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language

Munia Khan

#6. I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.

Jill Scott

#7. A whirlwind tour, I think, with each day starting in a different city, you wearing a different silk dress, tasting food the likes of which you cannot even imagine and learning how to weave your word-spells in all the world's languages.

Lisa Mantchev

#8. I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Peter Hoeg

#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. The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.

Leonard Bloomfield

#11. It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

Bjarne Stroustrup

#12. I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.

Joshua Roman

#13. Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Roger Bacon

#14. 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

#15. At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.

Kato Lomb

#16. That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.

Thomas Paine

#17. I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

Quincy Jones

#18. I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.
Kids just have an easier time with words.

Brian K. Vaughan

#19. The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.

Anton Chekhov

#20. There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas.

Kato Lomb

#21. 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

#22. Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

Stephen Harper

#23. Which meant I spent my spare time learning theory, studying dead languages and reading books like Essays on The Metaphysical by John "never saw a polysyllabic word he didn't like" Cartwright.

Ben Aaronovitch

#24. I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

Santiago Cabrera

#25. Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.

William Hazlitt

#26. 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

#27. The world loses one of its six thousand languages every two weeks, and children have stopped learning half of the languages currently spoken in the world. It's been argued that languages are under greater threat than any endangered bird or mammal.

Christine Kenneally

#28. 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

#29. With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

Edmund De Waal

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

Roger Bacon

#31. Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small.

Richard E. Pattis

#32. 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

#33. I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Vivien Leigh

#34. Annoyance has made me bilingual.

Gayle Forman

#35. Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.

E.D. Baker

#36. I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.

Lizzo

#37. Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop.

Kato Lomb

#38. 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