Quotes on Learning English

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

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.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant fine, go to the back of the line, but they can then stay here and they can have the ability to enforce a minimum wage that they're paid, make sure the worker safety laws are available, make sure that they can join a union.

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.