50 frases inspiradoras sobre línguas
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Aprender outra língua é algo poderoso e significativo - e nós da EF não somos os únicos que acreditam nisso! Reunimos 50 das frases mais inspiradoras de filósofos, escritores e figuras históricas icônicas que têm algo a dizer sobre o aprendizado de um uma nova língua.
Portanto, se precisa de um pouco de inspiração para dar o pontapé inicial em sua jornada rumo ao multilinguismo ou para dar um impulso enquanto estuda, nós temos o que precisa.
“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” – Rita May Brown
“It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly.” – Basil Gildersleeve
"Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery." – Amy Chua
“When you learn a language, you don’t just learn to speak and write a new language. You also learn to be open-minded, liberal, tolerant, kind and considerate towards all mankind.” – Mouloud Benzadi
“With languages, you are at home anywhere." – Edward De Waal
“The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
“One small step towards a language is one giant leap towards inclusion.” – Abhijit Naskar
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.” – Gaston Bachelard
“Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone your clear thinking.” – Tim Ferris
“We should learn languages because language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.” – Kató Lomb
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” – Lee Iacocca
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” – Frank Smith
“Languages aren't just made of words. They're modes of looking at the world. They're keys to civilizations.” – R. F. Kuang
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
“Friendliness is a language that the doves can hear and the blind can read.” – Mark Twain
“One of the benefits of being bicultural is simply the awareness that how you live is not the only way.” – Ann Campanella
“You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.” – Geoffrey Willans
“Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.” – Cesar Chavez
“Everybody smiles in the same language.” – George Carlin
"The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” – Doris Lessing
“Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.” – Roger Bacon
"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things." – Flora Lewis
“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” – Charlemagne
“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” – Benjamin Lee Whorf
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language." – Frank Smith
“To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.” – Chinese proverb
“The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.” – Sandra Cisneros
“A foreign language is like a frail, delicate muscle. If you do not use it, it weakens” – Jhumpa Lahiri
“Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language.” – Frank Smith
“Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.” – Gates McFadden
“To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Languages, just like people, are worlds within themselves. They have the incredible ability to provide us with a clearer, more profound and detailed perspective of a culture and its views on life, nature, and death.” – Orge Castellano
“A different language is a different vision of life.” – Federico Fellini
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
“It’s a bittersweet thing knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.” – Sarah Turnbull
“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.” – Joe Abercrombie
"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
“I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.” – Maya Angelou
“The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language.” – Jules Michelet
"Change your language and you change your thoughts." – Karl Albrecht
“Learning another language is like becoming another person.” – Haruki Murakami
“Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality.” – Julia Penelope
“Language is the light of the mind.” – John Stuart Mill
“The more languages you know, the more you are human.” – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
“One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people.” – Turkish proverb