Second Language Quotes

“Double your life experience by learning a second language.
-Taru”
― Taru Nieminen, Differentiated Instruction for World Languages With Student-Centered Projects

“The organs concerned in the production of English speech sounds are the larynx, the velum, the lips, the tongue (that punchinello in the troupe), and, last but not least, the lower jaw; mainly upon its overenergetic and somewhat ruminant motion did Pnin rely when translating in class passages in the Russian grammar or some poem by Pushkin. If his Russian was music, his English was murder.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“Now I help you find her." He stood up from behind the table, smoothed down his tie. "I sit for too long. My leg goes to bed."

"To sleep?"

"Thank you, small person. At rare time, I am making mistake in English-language speaking, so thanks for accurate fixation. Now we find Sarah. You follow. Stay near. There are trivial beings everywhere.”
― Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers