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If you talk to a man in a second language , your talking to his brain ,if you talk to him in his mother language you're talking to his heart - — Nelson Mandela

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. — Casey Miller

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. — Hans Kung

I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'. — Randee Heller

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

English is my second language. Laughter is my first. — Paul Krassner

Double your life experience by learning a second language.
-Taru — Taru Nieminen

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have. — Thalia

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

The person who thinks dogs can't talk doesn't want to learn a second language. — Mark Winik

Music is a second language to my heart. — Mara Arps

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language. — Christopher Walken

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen. — Garth Greenwell

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up. — Prince Royce

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language. — Ethan Hawke

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. — John Abizaid

'No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say. — Raymond Arroyo

We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. — Theodore Roosevelt

People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language. — Ursula Dubosarsky

Before we got engaged, he never farted. Now it's a second language. — Caroline Rhea

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself. — Robin Williams

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. — Mignon McLaughlin

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language. — George Mikes

That one of history's greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language. — Ross King

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language. — Adam Clymer

For those learning English as a second language, there is little to do but roll the eyes, tear at the hair, and grimly memorize each one. — Anne Stilman

To have another language is to possess a second soul. — Charlemagne

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language. — Stephen D. Krashen

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language. — Stephen D. Krashen

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. — Kristin Scott Thomas

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. — Lynn Abbey