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Polyglot: How I Learn Languages QUOTES

Polyglot: How I Learn Languages QUOTES

1 " My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

2 " To look it at another way, surely there are many unfortunate people who have needed to undergo multiple stomach surgeries. Yet no one would hand a scalpel over to them and ask them to perform the same surgery they received on another person, simply because they themselves had undergone it so often. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

3 " At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

4 " Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

5 " Egy indiai diák útlevelét forgatta az úgynevezett immigration officer. „Utazásának célja: tanulmányút” – olvasta hangosan.
– És mi lesz a tanulmány tárgya? – érdeklődött.
– Lav -felelte a diák, aki nyilván csak leírva látta a „law” (jog) szót, és ezért úgy ejtette ki, mint a „love”-t (szerelem).
A tisztviselőnek, angol hidegvérrel, a szeme sem rebbent meg. Átengedte az utast a kordonon, és csak magának morogta, hogy a „love” többé-kevésbé az egész világon egyforma: annak a kis különbségnek tanulmányozására igazán nem volt érdemes ennyi ezer kilométert megtenni. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

6 " Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

7 " A book can be pocketed and discarded, scrawled and torn into pages, lost and bought again. It can be dragged out from a suitcase, opened in front of you when having a snack, revived at the moment of waking, and skimmed through once again before falling asleep. It needs no notice by phone if you can’t attend the appointment fixed in the timetable. It won’t get mad if awakened from its slumber during your sleepless nights. Its message can be swallowed whole or chewed into tiny pieces. Its content lures you for intellectual Why and What adventures and it satisfies your spirit of adventure. You can get bored of it—but it won’t ever get bored of you. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

8 " My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

9 " Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

10 " He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

11 " Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

12 " I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

13 " One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

14 " ... I never looked for or found national differences in the various places of the world, only common features—eternal human nature. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

15 " We should learn languages because language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

16 " I heard from a swimming coach that how soon children learn to swim depends on how much they trust themselves and the surrounding world. I am convinced that this (self) confidence is the precondition of success in all intellectual activity. It may even have a greater role than believed in the least understood human talent: creativity, that is, artistic creation and scientific discovery. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

17 " [S]elf-assurance, motivation, and a good method play a much more important role in language learning than the vague concept of innate ability, and that dealing with languages is not only an effective and joyful means of developing human relationships, but also of preserving one's mental capacity and spiritual balance. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

18 " [S]tudy has never been a burden for me but always an inexhaustible source of joy. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

19 " [T]he time spent on language learning is lost unless it reaches a certain—daily and weekly—concentration. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

20 " The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows of the past linked to them that it is an obligation for all of us to guard their present and future. "

― Kató Lomb , Polyglot: How I Learn Languages