Greetings from Germany, where the girls and I are spending a few days with our cousins.
(Picture taken yesterday at Rotenburg's medieval quarters, really cool place.)
Estamos aprovechando para aprender un poquito de alemán, que no sabemos casi nada, y bueno, es una sensación curiosa, me lo comentaba Alicia hace un par de días: estamos muy acostumbradas a dominar el idioma allá donde estemos (tenemos la suerte de que, sabiendo español e inglés, podemos viajar a un montón de sitios) y la verdad es que impone y agobia un poco lo de no poder comunicarnos por nosotras mismas… Gracias Carlos, Lourdes, Carlos, Yago, Alonso, Celia y Anna por ponérnoslo tan fácil 🙂
As you probably know already, language and languages are topics that I find super interesting. One day I'll elaborate more on this, and I'll tell you the difference between the two Spanish words we use for «language(s)», but for the moment, here are a few quotes I personally like and fully agree with:
A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Rita Mae Brown
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about tthings.
Flor Lewis
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
Geoffrey willans
Y una de mis favoritas:
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What things do you know how to say in other languages? And how have the limits of your world changed as a result of that knowledge?