There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.Bjarne Stroustrup
I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.James Carr
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.Vivien Leigh
English is important if you want to make money. You have to speak some language everybody understands.Islam Makhachev
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.Michael Gove
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.Flora Lewis
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.Theodore Roosevelt
The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.Michael J. Knowles
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.Eleanor Catton
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.Cesar Chavez
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.Jamais Cascio
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.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 own language, that goes to his heart.Nelson Mandela