"It is much easier to learn another language……" — Martin Jacques
"It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed."
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76 Quotes by Martin Jacques
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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of…
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other…
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We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking…
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the…
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must…
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the…
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality:…
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China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but…
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless…
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are…
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The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion…
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium…
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More Another Language Quotes
This quote is filed under Another Language Quotes,
one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I…
— Balthus
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about…
— Flora Lewis
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Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language
— Sophie Marceau
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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn…
— Juliet Stevenson
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
— Gates McFadden
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In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who…
— Shirley Hazzard
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and…
— Richard Bach
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Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't…
— Margaret Thatcher
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To speak another language is to have another soul
— Charlemagne
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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