"The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. It would be the s..."
- Thomas Paine
"Freedom, one of the most important words in any language."
- Anwar Akash
"Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
"The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue."
- Munia Khan
"Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, ..."
- bell hooks
"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
"The face of self-pity was universally understood."
- Vann Chow
"Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language"
"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"
"If you want big improvements, she said, chew gum. Gum? Sure enough, chewing gum has been shown to improve a person's immediate recall of learned words by some 24 percent. Long-term recall improves by ..."
- Michael Erard