700 Reasons: Reason #319
- Reason: 319
- The view that languages other than our own provide us with a means of personal growth as human beings is a recurrent theme in literature, at various levels of intellectual profundity. Several proverbial expressions have captured the essential insight. ‘With each newly learned language you acquire a new soul’ (Slovakia). ‘A man who knows two languages is worth two men’ (France)
- Reference:
- Champion (1938) cited in Crystal, D. (2000) Language Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- Related Keywords:
- Personal and social development
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