Even if you become fluent in a second language, you don't understand it the same as the language you grew up with and that your mother spoke to you in.
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FRED FRITH Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head.... TREVOR NOAH If you want a man to understand you the most, talk to him in his own language.. OLASOT Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to b... MUNIA KHAN It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You... W. G. SEBALD You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying t... NICK EARLS Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you ... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they sp... RUSSELL HOBAN After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they ... RUSSELL HOBAN If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work. A. R. RAHMAN In learning a new language, no matter how good your language teacher is, or how good you are in clas... MAICHEE SUMMER Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in t... CONAN O'BRIEN The advantage of the gypsy language, even though I don't understand it that much, the language i... EMIR KUSTURICA If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Tor... DAVID NOVAK Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Di... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain... SAM KEAN To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To ... TIMOTHY FERRISS Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language... K'NAAN It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never ... MAX VON SYDOW I want to understand you, I study your obscure language. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and n... CHIGOZIE OBIOMA If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his ... NELSON MANDELA Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able ... PAULO COELHO Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you atten... MARTIN AMIS Teaching a child to read, is like teaching someone a different language. You understand that they ar... TALK2YOURBABY It's just like you don't want to believe you have to talk to your wife in a different way. She's sup... FAITH POPCORN Learn how to speak in Love! Your heart will teach you the only language we can all understand! ROXANA JONES You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a... THERESA MAY Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... DAVID CRYSTAL I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and th... KRISTIAN NAIRN Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language t... LOU RAWLS If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ... JEAN BAUDRILLARD God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. Y... HUSTON SMITH If you were a purist about language, you might think that this was a disease that people were contra... MICHAEL ADAMS Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t... PETER GUBER You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. GEOFFREY WILLANS AND RONALD SEARLE Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world. ANONYMOUS Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. MIKE MYERS In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w... ROSE CHRISTO Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different jou... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you'r... ORLANDO BLOOM If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I ... CHINA MIéVILLE Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language... ALAN MOORE This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communi... PAULO COELHO I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone... FINN WITTROCK Only younger brothers will understand me. We're following in the footsteps of older brothers. Yo... WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave t... ANONYMOUS. When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous ... JHUMPA LAHIRI Regardless of what language it is said in, "I love you" stays beautiful, and two hearts beating toge... CHRISTINA ENGELA I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can el... KATE GRENVILLE You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly a... KATHERINE ANNE PORTER When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortun... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU And some families from southern Egypt are still fluent in the language. AGHASON PAUL And some families from southern Egypt are still fluent in the language. AGHASON ANBA PAUL On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source ... SAM SHEPARD I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you.... KOBE BRYANT I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, e... URSULA DUBOSARSKY When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If yo... PABLO PICASSO If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you ... Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY* DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry DON'T SET... TRENT REZNOR Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you... BILAL TANWEER If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer ... GUIDO VAN ROSSUM Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex... KATE GRENVILLE It's no surprise that we have problems communicating, even in the same language. For example, when w... RICHARD LYLES Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'... BRYN TERFEL We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. BUCK HENRY A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language y... FRANK HERBERT The language of God is color because, it's the only thing that everyone understands. And even if you... ANTHONY T.HINCKS Reading a novel is altogether different from reading a newspaper, but it's all language. If you go t... GEORGE PERLE Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. JULIA GLASS ...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language ... JOHN GEDDES Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness a... ALFORD If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. ... JOSE PADILHA What is the translation for “I love you because you are” in the Cars language? In the War langua... MARIANA FULGER No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand imag... TIBOR KALMAN I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak. KEITH JARRETT Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness a... ANONYMOUS You taught me language, and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
Fo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music is the beginning of language to all humans. African Americans' music, in particular, harks bac... BILL FERRIS First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you... LOU SCHULTZ The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo... TIM O'BRIEN The physical appearance, the body language, the dialect you use, the way you behave should help othe... MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH JAVED There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common... DANIEL EVERETT If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language. HARUKI MURAKAMI CAN YOU PLAY A MAN'S PART? 'If you are walking with your mother, sister or best girl and some one pa... SINCLAIR LEWIS To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you ... MATTHEW DAVIS In the end it doesn't matter what you do. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up. STEPHEN FRY What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language? T. C. BOYLE Change your language and you change your thoughts. KARL ALBRECHT If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to fi... SALMAN RUSHDIE
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