Foreign Language Learning

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, language and/or learning:

    “Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind,
    That loved his learning better than mankind,
    Though courteous to the worst; much falling he
    Brooded upon sanctity....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)