Top 10 Chinese Quotes About Language Learning

Yīmén xīn de yǔyán shì yīzhǒng xīn de shēnghuó.

一门新的语言是一种新的生活。

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A new language is a new life.

Wǒ de yǔyán de júxiàn xìng shì wǒ de shìjiè de xiànzhì.

我的语言的局限性是我的世界的限制。

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The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

Rúguǒ nǐ hé yīgèrén yòng tā suǒ lǐjiě de yǔyán jiāotán, nà huì qùdào tā de tóunǎo. Rúguǒ nǐ yòng tā zìjǐ de yǔyán hé tā jiāotán, nà jiù huì qùdào tā de xīnlǐ.

如果你和一个人用他所理解的语言交谈，那会去到他的头脑。如果你用他自己的语言和他交谈，那就会去到他的心里。

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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.

Zhǎngwò lìng yīzhǒng yǔyán jiùshì yǒngyǒu dì èr gè línghún.

掌握另一种语言就是拥有第二个灵魂。

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To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Nǐ yǒngyuǎn wúfǎ lǐ jiè yīzhǒng yǔyán, zhídào nǐ míngbái zhìshǎo liǎng zhǒng.

你永远无法理解一种语言，直到你明白至少两种。

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You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

Yǔyán bùtóng, rénshēng shìjiǎo yě bùtóng.

语言不同，人生视角也不同。

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A different language is a different vision of life.

Dǒngdé liǎng zhǒng yǔyán de rén dǐ dé shàng liǎng gè rén.

懂得两种语言的人抵得上两个人。

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A man who knows two languages is worth two men.

Nǐ měi huì shuō yīmén xīn de yǔyán, nǐ jiù huì guò yīzhǒng xīn de shēnghuó. Rúguǒ nǐ jǐnjǐn zhīdào yīzhǒng yǔyán, nà nǐ zhǐyǒu yīzhǒng shēnghuó.

你每会说一门新的语言，你就会过一种新的生活。如果你仅仅知道一种语言，那你只有一种生活。

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You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.

Yǔyán zhīshì shì tōngwǎng zhìhuì de dàmén.

语言知识是通往智慧的大门。

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Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Yǔyán zhīshì shì duì wúzhī de jùdà míbǔ.

语言知识是对无知的巨大弥补。

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The great remedy for ignorance ... is knowledge of languages