Language Acquisition Quotes

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  • What is a nation without a mother tongue?

  • Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

  • A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

  • A different language is a different vision of life.

    Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

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

  • UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.

    Thinking   Yield   Mind  
  • Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

  • Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

    "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.
  • To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

    Two   Use   May  
    "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.
  • Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.

    Believe   Exercise   Data  
    Source: libcom.org
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