Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it...

Write it as easy as you think about the difficulty

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

The great gain was that I very soon became able to understand a great deal without (even mentally) translating it; I was beginning to think in Greek. That is the great Rubicon to cross in...

Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim...

The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able...

The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.