Bending Quote by Helen Barrett Montgomery

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary…

— Helen Barrett Montgomery

“Fifthly, As to learning their languages, the same means would be found necessary here as in trade between different nations. In some cases interpreters…

— William Carey

The least difficult thing a foreign missionary has to learn is the language; the part of her work which she has the most reason…

— Isabella Thoburn

“Learning a language happens in stages, and the first breakthrough is a limited understanding. Somehow the words began to make sense; I could not…

— Vicki Archer

“Ease of learning isn’t the primary force in language evolution.”

— Ted Chiang

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance,…

— Chris Gardner

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being…

— Jacques Barzun

“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

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

— Donald Miller

“In this way, the labor of learning was very considerably lightened, and everyone came to know a few words of each language. Occasionally we…

— Johann David Wyss