“Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.” IfsNeedsChildrenMotherSpeakLanguageCommunityWork OutTongueLocalsMy ChildrenBeneficialPubsCafesWelshMother Tongue Author:Bryn Terfel
“Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.” HeartChildrenSpiritNamesMy HeartGood ThingsForgottenTongueMy ChildrenNativeNative AmericanGreat Spirit Author:Ten Bears
“The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I know from research and personal experimentation with more than a dozen languages that (1) adults can learn languages much faster than children when constant 9-5 work is removed and that (2) it is possible to become conversationally fluent in any language in six months or less. At four hours per day, six months can be whittled down to less than three months.” KnowsChildrenThreeLanguageHoursWorkFourMonthsBecomingSixBenefitsResearchAdultsDifficultyConstantTongueFasterDisagreeDozenSix MonthsTheoreticalExperimentationThree MonthsUnderestimatedFluentLinguists Author:Tim Ferriss
“See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.” ChildrenMotherEducationHigherOur ChildrenTongueEducatedYour ChildrenBranchesMother Tongue Book:Journal of Discourses Source: Journal of Discourses
“Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.” MenGivingChildrenReasonFoundNamesSpeakLanguageSoundFingersTongueGesturesRecourse Book:De rerum natura Source: De rerum natura
“There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.” FeelsChildrenSoulAbleSilenceMovementTongueProofInvoluntary Author:Vittorio Alfieri