“Speaking more than one language delays age-related cognitive decline.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Until we develop the brain technology to communicate meaning telepathically without talking, no amount of translation can carry the warmth, nuances and sentiment of a lived language.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“I grew up speaking two languages,
mother tongue and national tongue,
then in my late teens I assimilated English
from pirated dvds of American movies;
soon after I absorbed another language,
from the South of India, again from movies.
Years later when I started writing and got WiFi,
that's when an entire new horizon opened up.
This time I found myself drawn to Turkish
and Spanish, which became second languages
in the canon, after my first English.
I don't describe, I embody -
I don't study a culture,
I disappear into the culture.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“How will you know if you can speak another language? If you can curse someone on impulse without memorizing, you got the language in your gut. If you can console someone in pain, the language nestles in your heart.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Forget grammar, forget vocabulary, let the language seep into your bloodstream. In a world infested with medal-seeking mules, stand odd, stand ablaze, a drunken pilgrim.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Pilgrim of Language (Sonnet)
How will you know if you
can speak another language?
If you can curse someone
on impulse without memorizing,
you got the language in your gut.
If you can console someone in pain,
the language nestles in your heart.
No es necessario que hablar guapisimo,
solamente necessario que hablar amable.
All those pedestals of language levels,
a, b, z, and what not, are elitist garbage.
Chase after form,
and you'll miss the soul -
throw yourself into the soul,
and neurons will regrow.
Forget grammar, forget vocabulary,
let the language seep into your bloodstream.
In a world infested with medal-seeking mules,
stand odd, stand ablaze, a drunken pilgrim.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“I switch languages like radio, I switch cultures like seasons.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“What makes a language native is not flawless syntax or grammar, but a shameless flow of passion.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Annoyance has made me bilingual.”
Source: Just One Day
“Fear is screaming at me to stop.
Doubt is begging me to turn around.
But I ignore them both, because something else is urging me onward, something much more powerful:
Hope”
Source: Wandering Wild