Top 10 Cantonese Quotes About Language Learning

san1 jyu5 jin4 zau6 hai6 san1 sang1 ming6.

新語言就係新生命。

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A new language is a new life.

ngo5 ge3 jyu5 jin4 gaai3 haan6 zau6 hai6 ngo5 go3 sai3 gaai3 ge3 gaai3 haan6.

我嘅語言界限就係我個世界嘅界限。

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The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

jyu4 gwo2 tung4 jat1 go3 jan4 jung6 keoi5 sik1 ge3 jyu5 jin4 kau1 tung1, keoi5 wui5 teng1 jap6 nou2. jyu4 gwo2 jung6 keoi5 zi6 gei2 ge3 jyu5 jin4 tung4 keoi5 lei4 kau1 tung1, keoi5 zau6 wui5 teng1 jap6 sam1.

如果同一個人用佢識嘅語言溝通，佢會聽入腦。如果用佢自己嘅語言同佢嚟溝通，佢就會聽入心。

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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.

sik1 do1 jat1 go3 jyu5 jin4, zau6 jung5 jau5 do1 jat1 go3 ling4 wan4.

識多一個語言，就擁有多一個靈魂。

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To have another language is to possess a second soul.

hei2 maa5 jiu3 sik1 do1 jat1 go3 jyu5 jin4, sin1 zi6 lei5 gaai2 dou3 zi6 gei2 ge3 mou5 jyu5.

起碼要識多一個語言，先至理解到自己嘅母語。

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You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

san1 ge3 jyu5 jin4 bei2 dou2 nei5 m4 tung4 ge3 sang1 wut6 gun1 dim2.

新嘅語言俾到你唔同嘅生活觀點。

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A different language is a different vision of life.

jat1 go3 sik1 loeng5 zung5 jyu5 jin4 ge3 jan4 bei2 dak1 soeng5 loeng5 go3 jan4.

一個識兩種語言嘅人比得上兩個人。

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A man who knows two languages is worth two men.

mui5 sik1 do1 go3 jyu5 jin4 zau6 do1 jat1 tiu4 meng6. jyu4 gwo2 nei5 zing6 hai6 sik1 jat1 zung5 jyu5 jin4, zau6 zing6 hai6 dak1 jat1 go3 sang1 ming6.

每識多個語言就多一條命。如果你淨係識一種語言，就淨係得一個生命。

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You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.

jyu5 jin4 zi1 sik1 tung1 wong5 zi3 wai3.

語言知識通往智慧。

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Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

mou4 zi1 ge3 zeoi3 hou2 bou2 gau3 cou3 si1... hai6 jyu5 man4 zi1 sik1.

無知嘅最好補救措施...係語文知識。

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The great remedy for ignorance ... is knowledge of languages