Inspiration for Learning English

Learning a language is not easy, is it?

When it gets really difficult, it may seem easier to just give up.

For those of you who are thinking about doing that, I suggest you read these quotes first:

10 Inspirational Quotes for Language Learners

❝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.❞
‒Nelson Mandela

❝One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.❞
‒Frank Smith

❝The limits of my language are the limits of my world.❞
‒Ludwig Wittgenstein

❝Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.❞
‒Sarah Caldwell

❝Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.❞
‒Chinese Proverb

❝You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.❞
‒Geoffrey Willans

❝To have another language is to possess a second soul.❞
‒Charlemagne

❝Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.❞
‒Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞
‒Rita Mae Brown

❝Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.❞
‒Oliver Wendell Holmes

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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH

For all the curious students out there:

 

1. The most common vowel in English is "e", followed by "a".
2. The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".
3. Every syllable in English must have a vowel (sound). Not all syllables have consonants.
4. Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".
5. The word "bookkeeper" (along with its associate "bookkeeping") is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters. Other such words, like "sweet-toothed", require a hyphen to be readily readable.
6. The word "triskaidekaphobia" means "extreme fear of the number 13". This superstition is related to "paraskevidekatriaphobia", which means "fear of Friday the 13th".
7. More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
8. A preposition is always followed by a noun (ie noun, proper noun, pronoun, noun group, gerund).
9. The word "uncopyrightable" is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once.

http://www.englishclub.com/interesting-facts/