When one first begins to learn a foreign language, each and every word is exciting. The promises online of reaching fluency in just a few months make acquiring a new language seem almost easy.
I only have to dedicate 3 months to this? Count me in. We set up a game-plan, tell humble brags to friends and family members, and mark it down as one of this year’s goals.
The only thing we actually have to do now is actually learn the language. Easy right?
Not quite. While I’m never one to scare someone away from their language journey, I won’t sugarcoat the truth.
Acquiring a language is hard. It’s strenuous. It’s at times embarrassing. And the lowest points come when we begin questioning why we even started learning in the first place.
It’s by no means a pretty process. But it’s totally worth it. There’s nothing that boosts someone’s internal self-confidence like acquiring a whole new language.
You open doors to new connections, communities, cultures, ideas, insights, solutions, and so much more. It may take a few years to reach “true” fluency, but the process is a unique experience like no other.
But hey– you don’t have to take it from me. Take it from the 15 intellectuals quoted below who confirm just why learning a foreign language is so important.
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Definitely worth a read! Now on to the quotes.
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Every new language we speak opens new possibilities.
ALI ANTHONY BELL
Language is an art, and a glorious one, whose influence extends over all others, and in which all science whatever must center; but an art springing from necessity, and originally invented by artless men.
J. H. TOOKE
The most difficult step in the study of language is the first step.
LEONARD BLOOMFIELD
Language is a window to the world.
SUSANNA ZARAYSKY
A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.
R. ASCHAM
Pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
MURIEL BARBERY
A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
MARCEL PROUST
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela Carter
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don’t more of us realize the connection between language and power?
Julia Penelope
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Sarah Caldwell
Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation’s culture as its language.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.
Frantz Fanon
Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war.
Anonymous
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