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It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. -- Michael Gove
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. -- Vivien Leigh
Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first. -- Timothy Keller
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. -- Lizzo
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. -- Fred Frith
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain. -- Andrew Bird
Playing golf is like learning a foreign language. -- Henry Longhurst
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language. -- Frank Herbert
I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages. -- Quincy Jones
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. -- Fabrice Luchini
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. -- Gates McFadden
I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. -- Flora Lewis
I don't like reading music. It's like learning a language. You can't read music proficiently overnight. It takes time, it's boring work. -- William Eggleston
Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia. -- Brian Kernighan
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. -- Hu Shih
Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families. -- Keith Henson
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. -- Samuel Barnett
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. -- Edward Sapir
I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude. -- Santiago Cabrera
I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent. -- Daniel Tammet
Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language. -- John Milius
The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come. -- Dan Buettner
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. -- Emily Carr
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. -- Yao Ming
Learning another language is like becoming another person. -- Haruki Murakami
The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning, -- Yehuda Amichai
Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language. -- Stephen D. Krashen
Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning. -- Luis von Ahn
In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. -- Walt Disney
[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. -- Lord Byron
For me, rather than the language, the Hollywood system of making movies was a tremendous learning experience. -- Song Kang-Ho
I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me -- Paulo Coelho
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking. -- Tim Ferriss
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. -- Kató Lomb
One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. -- Kató Lomb
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. -- Emily Carr
In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language. -- Ron Jaworski
Seemingly unrelated [things] that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers... -- Tim Ferriss
While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe. -- Thomas Jefferson
Learning through the arts reinforces critical academic skills in reading, language arts and math and provides students with the skills to creatively solve problems. -- Michelle Obama
So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come. -- Dan Buettner
It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite. -- Kevin Jorgeson
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice. -- Hank Johnson
When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool. -- Andrea Navedo
I feel like really thinking about art and really appreciating it and learning the language of it just makes you more of a connoisseur. I believe that. -- David Rees
I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language. -- S. I. Hayakawa
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
As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal. -- Steven Pinker
Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority. -- Storm Jameson

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