Quotes About Language

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come halfway round the world to convey.

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just learn another language for a movie?

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish.

My worst decision was not learning Spanish yet. I think it would really help my business if I could do some of my singles in Spanish or a Spanish/English mix.

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

My niece is - her name is Sasha, is currently learning Russian at Melbourne University and I look forward to the day when I can talk to her about Pushkin.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.