भाषा सीखने पर 30 प्रेरणादायक उद्धरण
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दार्शनिकों, बहुभाषियों, लेखकों और नेताओं के शब्द इस बात पर कि भाषा सीखना सब कुछ क्यों बदल देता है।
भाषा हमारी सोच को आकार देती है
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)
“Language is the dress of thought.”
— Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (1860)
“A different language is a different vision of life.”
— Federico Fellini, इतालवी फिल्म निर्देशक
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”
— Flora Lewis, The New York Times की विदेशी संवाददाता
“The diversity of languages is not a diversity of signs and sounds but a diversity of views of the world.”
— Wilhelm von Humboldt, जर्मन दार्शनिक और भाषाविद्
“I was beginning to think in Greek. That is the great Rubicon to cross in learning any language.”
— C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (1955)
भाषा क्यों सीखें
“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.”
— Nelson Mandela, दक्षिण अफ्रीका के पूर्व राष्ट्रपति
“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, जर्मन कवि और राजनेता
“Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.”
— Roger Bacon, 13वीं शताब्दी के अंग्रेजी दार्शनिक
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.”
— Frank Smith, मनोभाषाविद्
“You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”
— Geoffrey Willans, ब्रिटिश लेखक
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
— Charlemagne (पवित्र रोमन सम्राट) को अभिहित; यह अभिहितीकरण व्यापक रूप से दोहराया जाता है लेकिन ऐतिहासिक रूप से सत्यापित नहीं है
“You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.”
— चेक कहावत (Kolik řečí znáš, tolikrát jsi člověkem. — “जितनी भाषाएँ आप जानते हैं, उतनी बार आप एक इंसान हैं।” कहावत से लिया गया)
“To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world.”
— चीनी कहावत
बहुभाषी मस्तिष्क के अंदर
“Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.”
— Kató Lomb, हंगेरियन बहुभाषी और युगपत दुभाषिया (16 भाषाओं में पेशेवर रूप से काम किया)
“Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club — the community of speakers of that language.”
— Frank Smith, मनोभाषाविद्
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
— Toni Morrison, साहित्य का नोबेल पुरस्कार स्वीकृति भाषण (1993)
“He that is acquainted with only one language, will probably always remain in some degree the slave of language. But the man who is competent to and exercised in the comparison of languages, has attained to his proper elevation. Language is not his master, but he is the master of language.”
— William Godwin, The Enquirer (1797)
“Reality is constructed by languages, and the existence of a variety of languages means the existence of a variety of realities, a variety of truths.”
— Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
“In what language am I, suis-je, bin ich, when I am inmost? What is the tone of the self?”
— George Steiner, After Babel (1975)
“Every word is a bird we teach to sing.”
— Daniel Tammet, ऑटिस्टिक सावंत और बहुभाषी, Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing (2017)
यात्रा: अभ्यास, गलतियाँ और दृढ़ता
“Invested Time × Motivation / Inhibition = Result.”
— Kató Lomb, हंगेरियन बहुभाषी — भाषा सीखने की सफलता का उनका सूत्र। प्रेरणा अंश में है; गलतियों का डर हर में है।
“Not having heard of it is not as good as having seen it. Having seen it is not as good as knowing it. Knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”
— Xunzi (荀子), चीनी दार्शनिक, तीसरी शताब्दी ईसा पूर्व — जो बाद में “मुझे बताओ और मैं भूल जाता हूँ, मुझे सिखाओ और मैं याद रखता हूँ, मुझे शामिल करो और मैं सीखता हूँ” के रूप में विकसित हुआ, उसका मूल स्रोत।
“Sbagliando s’impara.” (गलतियाँ करके ही आप सीखते हैं।)
— इतालवी कहावत
“I have learned more languages since the age of 60 than prior to the age of 60.”
— Steve Kaufmann, कनाडाई बहुभाषी और LingQ के संस्थापक (20+ भाषाएँ बोलते हैं)
“If you’re going to learn a new language, you can’t try to be perfect. You’ll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.”
— Yao Ming, चीनी बास्केटबॉल खिलाड़ी जिन्होंने NBA में शामिल होने के बाद अंग्रेजी सीखी
“There is no such thing as an ugly accent. Saying there is, is like saying there’s an ugly flower.”
— David Crystal, ब्रिटिश भाषाविद्
“Aim to make at least 200 mistakes a day. The more mistakes you make, the faster you become a confident language learner.”
— Benny Lewis, आयरिश बहुभाषी और Fluent in 3 Months के लेखक
“We acquire language in only one way: by understanding messages, or obtaining ‘comprehensible input’ in a low-anxiety situation.”
— Stephen Krashen, भाषाविद् और भाषा अधिग्रहण शोधकर्ता, The Power of Reading
भाषा सीखना पहुँचने के बारे में नहीं है — यह विस्तार करने के बारे में है। हर नया शब्द, हर नया वाक्यांश, हर नई गलती एक विस्तृत दुनिया में एक कदम है। जैसा काटो लोम्ब ने कहा: इतनी सारी भाषाएँ, उन्हें सीखने के लिए इतने सारे वर्ष शेष हैं।
यदि इन उद्धरणों ने आपको एक नई भाषा सीखने के लिए प्रेरित किया है, तो OpenL 100+ भाषाओं में मुफ्त अनुवाद प्रदान करता है — तब उपयोगी जब आपको किसी ऐसी भाषा में किसी वाक्यांश का त्वरित अर्थ समझने की आवश्यकता हो जिसे आप अभी सीखना शुरू कर रहे हैं। किसी विशिष्ट भाषा में गहराई से जाने के लिए, कातालान पर हमारी मार्गदर्शिका देखें, जो एक समृद्ध राजनीतिक और सांस्कृतिक कहानी वाली रोमांस भाषा है।
स्रोत
- Ludwig Wittgenstein — Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — Proposition 5.6
- Samuel Johnson — Lives of the English Poets — “Life of Cowley”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. — The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (1860) — Chapter II
- Wilhelm von Humboldt — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — on the diversity of worldviews
- C.S. Lewis — Surprised by Joy (1955) — Chapter IX
- Nelson Mandela — Oxford Essential Quotations — verified quote
- Goethe — Britannica — widely anthologized in Maxims and Reflections
- Roger Bacon — Durham University — on languages and knowledge
- Charlemagne “Second Soul” — Quid Plura? blog — tracing the misattribution to 1989 UPI
- Czech proverb — Wikipedia Reference Desk — analysis of the proverb’s origin
- Kató Lomb — Polyglot: How I Learn Languages — free English translation (TESL-EJ)
- George Steiner — After Babel (1975) — on translation and multilingual identity
- William Godwin — The Enquirer (1797) — on the multilingual mind
- Minae Mizumura — The Fall of Language in the Age of English — Columbia University Press
- Toni Morrison — Nobel Lecture (1993) — Nobel Prize in Literature
- Daniel Tammet — Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing — memoir (2017)
- Xunzi — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Chapter 8, “The Achievements of the Ru”
- Quote Investigator — “Tell Me and I Forget” — origin tracing to Xunzi
- David Crystal — official site — British linguist and author
- Steve Kaufmann — Montreal Gazette — profile of the Lingly founder
- Benny Lewis — Fluent in 3 Months — Daily Mail interview on embracing mistakes
- Stephen Krashen — The Power of Reading — on comprehensible input and language acquisition
- EF Education First — 50 Inspiring Quotes About Languages — reference quote collection
- Flora Lewis — New York Times obituary — career overview; the language quote is widely attributed to her body of work as a foreign correspondent
- Frank Smith — psycholinguist bibliography — Ourselves: Why We Are Who We Are (2006); his language quotes circulate widely in literacy and language education contexts
