“Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.” ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

“A different language is a different vision of life.” ~Federico Fellini

“He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kunst and Alterthum

“If you can speak three languages you’re trilingual. If you can speak two languages you’re bilingual. If you can speak only one language you’re an American.” ~Author Unknown

“English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.” ~Author Unknown

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“When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.” — Henry David Thoreau

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