Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.”

— Munia Khan

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

— Roger Ascham

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

— Flora Lewis

Let your memory be your travel bag.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence, more open…

— Fay Abernethy

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

— Michael Gove

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

— Samuel Johnson

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

— Roger Ascham

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community…

— Frank Smith

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

— Roger Bacon

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

— Vivien Leigh

“My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. There’s no better way…

— Wendy Werneth