I Quotable Quotes

1 Study the following quotes and tick ONE that rings especially true to you.

• 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

• The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. —Ezra Pound

• You can never understand one language until you understand at least two. —Geoffrey Williams

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

• We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second. —Adam Gopnik

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

• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.—George Raymond Richard Martin

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.—Oliver Wendell Holmes

2 Get into groups and tell each other why it rings especially true to you.

3 Translate the last two quotes into Chinese.