Lie detection is like language there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things but learning another way to think about things.

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

It's really difficult for me. Language I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Learning a foreign language and the culture that goes with it is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

It's like learning a language you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

I never found accents difficult after learning languages.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.