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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7222 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 9 of 20 07 February 2011 at 12:24am | IP Logged | |||||
"You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once." I remember this it, is one of my favorites. A Bulgarian quote is similar also. Човекът е толкова пъти човек, колкото езика знае (Čovekãt e tolkova pãti čovek, kolkoto ezika znae) the more languages you know, the more you are a person The Omniglot site has a lot I really like, these included. here Edited by alang on 07 February 2011 at 12:28am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kounotori Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5345 days ago 136 posts - 264 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 10 of 20 07 February 2011 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
That seems to be a very popular adage among Slavic peoples. The Russians also say "Сколько ты знаешь языков, столько раз ты человек" (Skól'ko tý znáesh' jazykóv, stól'ko ráz tý chelovék). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6035 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 12 of 20 07 February 2011 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
天不怕，地不怕，只怕广东人说普通话。 (Tiān bù pà, dì bù pà, zhǐ pà Guǎngdōng rén shuō Pŭtōnghuà) I fear neither heaven nor earth, I only fear Cantonese speakers trying to speak Mandarin. Ahahahah... ROFL! And this one is also fun: Un homme qui parle trois langues est trilingue. Un homme qui parle deux langues est bilingue. Un homme qui ne parle qu'une langue est anglais. Edited by Sennin on 07 February 2011 at 4:30pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 13 of 20 07 February 2011 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
There's a Gaelic proverb 'S e obair latha toiseachadh. It's a day's work getting started. But there's a long form too... 'S e obair latha toiseachadh, ach 's e obair beatha crìochnachadh. It's a day's work getting started, but it's life's work to finish. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Matty Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5295 days ago 31 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 15 of 20 08 February 2011 at 12:31am | IP Logged | |||||
If that were the case, you would think it would be easier for English speakers to learn. ;<) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Scoobs Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5664 days ago 27 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Persian | Message 16 of 20 08 February 2011 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language."
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