languages

If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.

With languages, you are at home anywhere.

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

My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. There__ no better way to learn a language than by immersing yourself in a culture where it__ spoken, and there__ no better way to immerse yourself in a culture than by learning to speak the local language.

When he is dissected after his death," a disrespectful interpreter said of a foreign dignitary, "a million predicates will be found in his stomach: those he swallowed in the past decades without saying them.

The fort.Where the pair stored their painted scenes and books of made-up languages, their two-man band, and the tiny matchbox bed plus accessories that they made in case, someday, their experiments in the world of shrinking finally panned out.

In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by "Not so good.

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish.

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

Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language

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

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

We Americans are reluctant to learn a foreign language of our own species, let alone another species. But imagine the possibilities. Imagine the access we would have to different perspectives, the things we might see through other eyes, the wisdom that surrounds us. We don__ have to figure out everything by ourselves: there are intelligences other than our own, teachers all around us. Imagine how much less lonely the world would be.

Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection __pecies loneliness___ deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our human dominance of the world has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors. It__ no wonder that naming was the first job the Creator gave Nanabozho.

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

The language of light can only be decoded by the heart.

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters.