Language is wine upon the lips. – Virginia Woolf
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. – William Gibson
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. – Roger Ascham
“If I’m selling to you, I speak your language. If I’m buying, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen.” — Willy Brandt
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
With languages, you are at home anywhere.” – Edward De Waal
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generation.
– Edward Sapir
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.
– John Ciardi
Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.
– Noah Webster
A natural language is the archive where the experiences, knowledge and beliefs of a community are stored.
– Fernando Lázaro Carreter
The world is a mosaic of visions. With each language that disappears, a piece of that mosaic is lost.
– Francois Grosjean
with languages you can , you can move from one situation from another - Edmund de Waal
“My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. There’s no better way to learn a language than by immersing yourself in a culture where it’s spoken, and there’s no better way to immerse yourself in a culture than by learning to speak the local language.”
― Wendy Werneth
“Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language”
― Munia Khan
“Freedom, one of the most important words in any language.”
― Anwar Akash
“While one lives in a foreign country, language's main function is as a means of self-protection and a weapon in one's fight with the world. You can't fight without a weapon. But perhaps its human instinct that makes it even more imperative to somehow express oneself, convey meaning, connect with others.”
― Iwaki Kei, Farewell, My Orange
“Before two years of age, human interaction and physical interaction with books and print are the best entry into the world of oral and written language and internalized knowledge, the building blocks of the later reading circuit.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
“The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom
“Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.”
Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.”
― Stephen D. Krashen, The Natural Approach: Language Acquisition in the Classroom