{"id":3298,"date":"2015-01-19T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2015-01-19T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T10:02:07","slug":"inspiring-quotes-for-language-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/inspiring-quotes-for-language-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring quotes for language learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ll know if you follow us on <a title=\"EuroTalk on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/eurotalk\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> or <a title=\"EuroTalk on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurotalk\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, each week we share a quote that we think is particularly helpful or inspiring. So for today&#8217;s blog post, we&#8217;ve collected together a few of our favourites, to help motivate and encourage anyone learning a language. Feel free to share any that grab you.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find more of our weekly quotes on <a title=\"EuroTalk inspirational quotes on Pinterest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/eurotalk\/inspirational-quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a> and <a title=\"EuroTalk inspirational quotes on We Heart It\" href=\"https:\/\/weheartit.com\/eurotalk\" target=\"_blank\">We Heart It<\/a>. And if you have a quote you think we should share, please let us know!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Wooden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1952\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Canetti-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;There is no such thing as an ugly language.&quot; Elias Canetti\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Wooden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3306\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Wooden-1024x1013.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;If I am through learning, I am through.&quot; John Wooden\" width=\"600\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Lewis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3304\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Lewis-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.&quot; C.S. Lewis\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fellini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3303\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Fellini-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;A different language is a different vision of life.&quot; Federico Fellini\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ascham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3302\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ascham.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.&quot; Roger Ascham\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mayer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3301\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Mayer.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.&quot; John Mayer\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bacon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3300\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Bacon-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Knowledge of languages is the key to wisdom.&quot; Roger Bacon\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/De-Waal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3299\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/De-Waal-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;With languages, you are at home anywhere.&quot; Edmund De Waal\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Eliot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3210\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Eliot-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;For last year's words belong to last year's language, And next year's words await another voice.&quot; T.S. Eliot\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Safak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3173\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Safak-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.&quot; Elif Safak\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Evans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3016\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Evans-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.&quot; Richard L. Evans\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2895\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sills.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;There are no short cuts to any place worth going.&quot; Beverly Sills\" width=\"600\" height=\"715\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Carlin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2522\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Carlin-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Everyone smiles in the same language.&quot; George Carlin\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Schuller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2480\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Schuller-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.&quot; Robert H. Schuller\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mandarin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2367\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Mandarin-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.&quot; Chinese proverb\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gibson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2273\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gibson-1024x744.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.&quot; William Gibson\" width=\"600\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Roosevelt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2157\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Roosevelt-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cBelieve you can and you're halfway there.\u201d Theodore Roosevelt\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Garcia-Marquez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2133\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Garcia-Marquez-1024x856.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.&quot; Gabriel Garcia Marquez\" width=\"600\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Emerson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1934\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Emerson-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Every artist was at first an amateur.&quot; Ralph Waldo Emerson\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Saussure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1901\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Saussure-1024x635.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.&quot; Ferdinand de Saussure\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Rumi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1766\" src=\"https:\/\/eurotalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Rumi-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.&quot; Rumi\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you&#8217;ll know if you follow us on Facebook or Twitter, each week we share a quote that we think is particularly helpful or inspiring. So for today&#8217;s blog post, we&#8217;ve collected together a few of our favourites, to help motivate and encourage anyone learning a language. Feel free to share any that grab you. &#8230; <a title=\"Inspiring quotes for language learners\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/inspiring-quotes-for-language-learners\/\" aria-label=\"More on Inspiring quotes for language learners\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[380,3],"tags":[703,775,333,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utalk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}