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Top Ten Best Proverbs About Language Learning

To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world. –Chinese proverb

 

Those who know many languages live as many lives as the languages they know. ‒Czech proverb

One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. ‒Turkish Proverb

 

A new language is a new life. –Persian Proverb

 

Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war. –Arab Proverb

 

With a language, you can go to Rome. –Quebec Proverb

 

If you want people to understand you, speak their language. –African Proverb 

 

Love has its own language, but marriage falls back on the local dialect. –Russian proverb

 

Learn a new language and get a new soul. –Czech Proverb

 

The best time to learn a language was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Lingholic

                                                  Quotes About Languages

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language.”
- George Bernard Shaw

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.”
-Ambrose Bierce

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
- John French

Any time you think some other language is strange, remember that yours is just as strange, you're just used to it.
- Linguistic Mystic

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generation.
- Edward Sapir

I am sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
- Dr Johnson

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.
- Dave Barry

When you can speak another language you go from being a person in an adult's body, pointing at things like a child, to being able to communicate with people like an adult again.
- Eddie Izzard

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway. ~Author Unknown

Language is the dress of thought. ~Samuel Johnson

Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. ~Mark Amidon

A different language is a different vision of life. ~Federico Fellini

Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb

Why is it so hard to memorize new words?

Memorizing new terms seems a difficult task for many reasons. In general, the brain tends to select the information that it receives, discarding what it considers unnecessary. Imagine remembering every single detail that enters your brain: you would remember thousands of words effortlessly, but would also be paying a terrible price: your brain would be constantly fighting against a permanent, unwanted and annoying interference of useless information. Fortunately, our brain works on its own rhythm and it “self-regulates” when it comes to organizing information.

So, forgetting information is actually a good thing. The goal is to help the brain to remember the information that we consider important. Language learners want to remember as many words as possible and they often cannot. They come to the conclusion that they simply do not have a good memory and thus language learning is not for them. This is another myth that must be dispelled.

Whatever its limitations, the brain possesses an extraordinary ability to learn and retain information. The secret is to how to really use it.

How can we improve our capacity of retaining new words?

The process of acquiring new information can be generally divided into 3 categories: decoding, storage and retrieval. When the brain receives new information, it decodes it and then stores it. The stored information can then be retrieved in the future. If we cannot recall something (the so called “knowledge-gap”), something went wrong during one of these phases.

There are several types of memory: short and long-term memory, sensory memory etc. The latter receives information through the stimulation of the senses such as sight, touch, smell. The short-term memory, also called working memory, retains small amounts of information for short periods of time. We use it when we do mental calculations, remember a password, a code or a phone number. If we want to store a word, we have to put it into our long-term memory. How can we do it efficiently?

Memory is like a muscle, it atrophies if it does not work. Each capacity/faculty that is neglected tends to weaken and eventually disappear. So it must be constantly stimulated. The best way to do it is to repeat continuously. If you want your memory to work well, make it work a little bit everyday. The repetition of an operation has a cumulative effect whose main goal is that of forcing information into our brain without us making deliberate efforts.

Why is English important?

                English language is important as it is the common language that can help people all over the world to communicate with each other. English language is made compulsory in all the schools today in the countries where their own native languages are given utmost importance. This is done keeping in mind that English will fetch the student a career which can make him to get adjusted easily at any place in the world. English language enables you to speak to the foreigners whose native language may not be known by us. To communicate with the foreigners easily, it is better to have the knowledge in English.

                Knowing many foreign languages will sharpen your brain activity as words are considered to create strong thoughts. Some people believe that learning many languages will make us live longer. Today, most of the schools have the medium of instruction as English. Till the high school and junior college and under graduation most of the countries have medium of instruction in their national languages or native languages along with English. But, from post-graduation onwards it is highly difficult to have the medium of instruction in native language.

             An established scientific study can be named and rewritten in other languages after its discovery or invention by scientists. But, the research currently going on or some of the aspects of the high order research did at the latest can be published in English only. It is highly difficult to carry out the study in the native language at post graduation and at Ph. D level. Studies dealt from schooling till under-graduation carried out in native language is difficult to be shifted abruptly into English medium at the post-graduation level. It has to be done inevitably in English medium. As it is the stage where knowledge has to be shared frequently with everyone in the world in the form of continuous research higher education has to be in English medium. So, it is important to learn English in some part of your life, if not in the childhood.

           Learning English will make you to be accepted by everyone in the world and you will have better opportunities in many locations in the world.