My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
95% on content and the computer language remains the same.
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
Much has been written about Trump's style of speech, which linguists have said is often unintelligible yet deeply compelling. Orwell's famous 1946 essay, 'Politics and the English Language,' centers on the use of abstract words, often by politicians, to obscure reality.
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
When I reached America, there was so much space and colour. The possibilities seemed endless. At least that's how I felt at 18. But of course, I didn't have to take the usual immigrant route of battling to find a job and a home in a strange country. I could play tennis. I spoke the language, and I was making money. It was easy, really.
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
