Learning A New Language Quotes

“Nothing makes you feel more stupid than learning a new language. You lose your confidence. You want to disappear. Not be noticed. Say as little as possible.”

“Being in a new country, learning a new language - it isn't something that scares me.”

“Learning a new language is very, very different from doing an accent.”

“When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow by the enlarging of consciousness, by learning a new language, or a new art or craft (gardening?) that implies a new way of looking at the universe. Love is one of the great enlargers of the person because it requires us to "take in" the stranger and to understand him, and to exercise restraint and tolerance as well as imagination to make the relationship work.”

“Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.”

“The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.”

“Every writer needs new material now and then, whether it's traveling to Japan, volunteering at a food bank, learning a new language, or trying a new food.”

“Let's just say that most people, when learning a new language, are only interested in 'funny' words.”

“I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.”

“I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language.”

“Just to see how much time is consumed looking down at your phone when you could be reading, becoming better at your own language, or learning a new language - you could be doing so many productive things. You could becoming a better student-athlete.”

“I was able to learn a new language - a new musical language is learning a new language, because it's so extremely different from Western classical music. African music is completely different.”

“It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.”

“Learning a new language is like tabula rasa: You're a blank page, whatever you bring me, I will learn.”

“Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.”