
Sometimes when we are studying a second language,
all we need is a little inspiration to keep us going.
Here are some quotes that I found on this website:
(第二言語を学んでいて時々必要になるのが「モチベーション」なるもの。
ここのウェブサイトでみつけた10の「モチベーションがあがる」引用文たちです☆)
❝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
❝One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.❞
‒Frank Smith
❝The limits of my language are the limits of my world.❞
‒Ludwig Wittgenstein
❝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
❝Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.❞
‒Chinese Proverb
❝You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.❞
‒Geoffrey Willans
❝To have another language is to possess a second soul.❞
‒Charlemagne
❝Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.❞
‒Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞
‒Rita Mae Brown
❝Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.❞
‒Oliver Wendell Holmes
どれもイイ☆
My absolute favorite is:
❝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
「その人が”理解できる”言語で話すと、言葉はその人の「頭」に届く。その人の言語で話すと、言葉はその人の「心」に届く」
- ネルソン・マンデラ
Now, that’s THE reason to learn another language :) … for me it is, anyway :)
Keep it up
