1. If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. Ifyou talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.

如果你用别人能理解的语言与对方谈话，那么谈话会进入对方的大脑。如果你用对方的语言与之谈话，那么谈话会进入对方的心里。

?Nelson Mandela

(纳尔逊·曼德拉，前南非总统)

2. One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every dooralong the way.

一种语言可以为人生开启一条走廊。俩种语言则会使这条人生走廊的沿途上处处开启大门。

?Frank Smith

(弗兰克·史密斯，美国语言心理学家)

3. The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

语言的限制就是对我的世界的限制。

?Ludwig Wittgenstein

(路德维希·维特根斯坦，奥地利哲学家)

4. Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there willalways come a time when you will be grateful you did.

学习一切你所能学，任何时间，无论向谁;总有一天你会为你所做感到欣慰。

?Sarah Caldwell

(萨拉?考德威尔，美国歌剧指挥)

5. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

学习是无论到哪都追随主人的财富。

?Chinese Proverb

(中国谚语)

6. You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

除非你掌握了俩门以上的语言，否则你永远无法真正理解一门语言。

?Geoffrey Willans

(杰弗里?威兰斯，英国作家)

7. To have another language is to possess a second soul.

掌握另一门语言，拥有第二个灵魂!

?Charlemagne

(查理曼大帝)

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

不了解外语的人也无法真正了解自己的语言。

?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德，德国诗人)

9. Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people comefrom and where they are going.

语言是文化的地图。它为你解答人们从哪里来到哪里去。

? Rita Mae Brown

(丽塔·梅·布朗，美国作家)

10. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of whichthey grow.

语言是灵魂的血肉，有了血肉，思想就可以奔跑，有了灵魂，语言才得以成长。

?Oliver Wendell Holmes

(奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯，美国诗人)