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Are you learning a foreign language right now?
Do you have some difficulties in learning a second language, understanding or applying some parts of the language?
If you still don't, it's likely you will.
But don't panic. That's all the language learning process and it is completely normal. You will also overcome that obstacle, so don’t even think about quitting.
In learning any foreign language, you get to the stage where you struggle learning and understanding some parts of it, like grammar patterns, some phrases, or simply to express your thoughts in that language.
Sometimes we all need a little push or some positive and inspirational support to continue doing what we do.
To get a little more motivation, check out the following 51 inspirational quotes about language learning.
51 Inspirational Quotes About Language Learning For Every Learner
No matter if you've just started, you have fear of speaking a foreign language or you just need some extra motivation to remind you why you are learning the language, the following quotes about language learning are an ideal reminder and motivator that can help every language learner.
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A different language is a different vision of life. (Federico Fellini)
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A foreign language is like a frail, delicate muscle. If you do not use it, it weakens. (Jhumpa Lahiri)
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A foreign language is more easily learned in the kitchen than at school. (German proverb)
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A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. (Cesar Chavez)
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A man who knows two languages is worth two men. (French proverb)
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A new language is a new life. (Persian proverb)
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. ( Gaston Bachelard)
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Any time you think some other language is strange, remember that yours is just as strange, you’re just used to it. (Anonymous)
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Change your language and you change your thoughts. (Karl Albrecht)
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Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. (Amy Chua)
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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If I’m selling to you, I speak your language. If I’m buying, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen. (Willy Brand)
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If you know many languages then you have many keys to a castle. (François-Marie Arouet)
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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)
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
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I am always sorry when any language is lost because languages are the pedigrees of nations. (Samuel Johnson)
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I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. (Vivien Leigh)
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It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly. (Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve)
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It’s like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There are all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with. (William Wiley)
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Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. (Roger Bacon)
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Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. (Alan Moore)
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Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. (Rita Mae Brown)
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery. (Mark Amidon)
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 wine upon the lips. (Virginia Woolf)
Language shapes the way we think and determines what we can think about. (Benjamin Lee Whorf)
Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war. (Arab proverb)
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 Andrew Gove)
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things but learning another way to think about things. (Flora Lewis)
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)
Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language. (Frank Smith)
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise, he voluntarily makes himself a great baby, so helpless and so ridiculous. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. (Turkish proverb)
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. (Rumi)
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. (Roger Bacon)
The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue. (Munia Khan)
The limits of my language are the limits of my world. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. (Victor Hugo)
The more languages you know, the more you are human. (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk)
The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist. (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language. (Jules Michelet)
To have another language is to possess a second soul. (Charlemagne)
To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world. (Chinese proverb)
You are as many a person as languages you know. ( Armenian proverb)
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. (Geoffrey Willans)
You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once. (Czech proverb)
We should learn languages because language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. (Kató Lomb)
With languages, you are at home anywhere. (Edward De Waal)
Without translation, we would be living in the provinces bordering on silence. (George Steiner)
Final Thoughts
With all these motivational quotes about language learning, not only that you will feel inspired to learn and practice the language, but also to practice it with real people.
The best solution for practicing the language is with Justlearn tutors because combining your motivation with the teaching experience of these native speakers is a win-win situation.
