为什么要学外语? 请给我一个理由先!下文中有很多名人说过关于语言学习的话,不知道你欣赏哪一个?我喜欢查理曼大帝的“掌握另一门语言,拥有第二个灵魂” !气势很大啊,作为法兰克王国的国王,之后神圣罗马帝国的老祖宗,想必他有不止两个灵魂。
虽然学习外语,未必能让你更聪明,但是可以让大脑更加健康、多元以及活化。即使在你年幼时没有机会学习第二种语言,但是现在学习,永远不会太晚。
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。
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学英语的路上总会怀疑走下去是为了什么,这是完全没错的,学习新的语言总会有一个动机或者理由,所以我们坚持下去是为了什么呢?
这些名人给了我们很好的答案!
Nelson Mandela
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you 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。
——纳尔逊.曼德拉
Frank Smith
One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along 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。
——弗兰克.史密斯
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。
——路德维希‧约瑟夫‧约翰‧维特根斯坦
Sarah Caldwell
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always 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。
——萨拉.考尔德韦尔
Chinese Proverb
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。
——中国谚语
Geoffrey Willams
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。
——杰弗里威.威廉姆
Charlemagne
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
掌握另一门语言,拥有第二个灵魂!
——查理曼大帝
JohanWn von Goethe
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。
——约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德
Rita Mae Brown
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from 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。
——瑞塔.梅.布朗
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they 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。
—奥利佛·文德尔·荷默斯
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