Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you
Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures it, that is, has need of it. If a culture is dominated by a medium that requires the segregation of the young in order that they learn unnatural, specialized, and complex skills and attitudes, then childhood, in one form or another, will emerge, articulate and indispensable.
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
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.
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