Brain Quote by Noam Chomsky

“If, redesigning our education system from scratch, it was suggested that we should attempt to teach Swahili to children but carry out those lessons…

— Frank Chalk

Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally…

— Steven Pinker

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar,…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when…

— Mel Brooks

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

My parents have always had a very limited command of English. Of course, when we first arrived in the UK, none of us spoke…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of…

— Harlan Lane

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

— Elif Safak

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

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also…

— Peter Høeg

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the…

— Anne Sullivan Macy

I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually…

— Fannie Lou Hamer