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Какие Вы знаете изречения на английском языке об иностранном языке?

Вот неплохая подборка цитат на эту тему:

'Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own'

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – German playwright, novelist, dramatist and poet 1749 – 1832).

'Through learning language, we learn about culture.

Through learning about culture, we learn respect of others.

Through learning respect of others, we can hope for peace.'

(Claire Kramsch, 'Context and Culture in Language Teaching').

'Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages'.

(Neil Simon).

'El que habla dos lenguas vale por dos'.

(A person who speaks two languages is worth two).

(Spanish saying).

'You can't see other people's points of view when you speak only one language'

(Frank smith).

'One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way'.

(Frank Smith).

'I wish life was not so short', he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all things one wants to know about'.

(J.R.R. Tolkien – English professor and writer).

'To speak a foreign language is to posses a second soul'.

(Charlemagne).

'A different language is a different vision of life'.

(Federico Fellini – Italian movie director).

'When I speak Polish now, it is infiltrated, permeated, and inflected with English in my head. Each language modifies the other, crossbreeds with it, fertilizes it. Each language makes the other relative. Like everybody, I am the sum of my languages.'

(Eva Hoffman, Editor of the New York Times Book Review).