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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

— Kate Grenville

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A different language is a different vision of life.

— Federico Fellini

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

— G. Willow Wilson

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

— Siri Hustvedt

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

— David Crystal

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

— George Steiner

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

— Gates McFadden

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

— Santiago Cabrera

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

— Manuel Puig

We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.

— Chris Abani

✗Opposing Perspectives

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

— Sergei Bubka