有用的外语短语

Assorted 'useful' foreign phrases
压码阅读世界外语
   管他东西南北千变万化外国话，
   东方西方说的底都离不开中方，
   管他文字汉字字母认识不认识，
   放在一块一起不信也是中国话。
  
   压码阅读外国语，
   不用教你你也会。
   会看的看门道，
   不会看的看热闹。
   语言学习太麻烦，
   各种外语一锅烩，
   学习必须用心念，
   看完以后你全会。

   心念不如神视觉，
   。
  

Yiddish
אַ שפּראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמיי און פֿלאָט
(A shprakh iz a dyalekt mit an armey un flot)
A language is a dialect with an army and navy.
- Max Weinreich  

Welsh
Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon.
A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.

Ukrainian
Скільки мов ти знаєш - стільки разів ти людина
(Skilʼky mov ty znaješ - stilʼky raziv ty ljudyna)
How many languages you know - that many times you are a person.
- Павло Тичина (Pavlo Tychyna)

Turkish
Söz gümüşse sukut altındır.
If talking is silver, silence is golden.

Tatlı dil yılanı deliğinden çıkarır.
Sweet language brings even a snake from its hole.

Dilin kemiği yoktur ama kemikleri büker.
The tongue has no bone but it twists the bones. meaning: words may have disastrous effects.

Bir dil bir insan, iki dil iki insan.
One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people.

Tagalog
Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay higit pa sa hayop at malansang isda.
Those who know not how to love their own language are worse than an animal and a smelly fish.
Jose Rizal, Filipino national hero

Spanish
Una lengua natural es el archivo adonde han ido a parar las experiencias, saberes y creencias de una comunidad.
A natural language is the archive where the experiences, knowledge and beliefs of a community are stored.
- Fernando Lázaro Carreter

La lengua es la piel del alma
Language is the skin of the soul.
- Fernando Lázaro Carreter

La pluma es la lengua de la mente
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Con cada lengua que se extingue se borra una imagen del hombre.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
- Octavio Paz

Para ser lexicógrafo hay que tener una veta de locura idealista, porque la foto del lenguaje es imposible hacerla.
You need to have a streak of idealistic lunacy in you to be a lexicographer, as it is impossible to take a photo of language.
- Manuel Seco

Yo nunca me he quedado sin patria. Mi patria es el idioma.
I've never been without a country. My language is my country.
- María Zambrano

Scottish Gaelic
Am fear a chailleas a chanain caillidh e a shaoghal.
He who loses his language loses his world.

Sluagh gun chanain, sluagh gun anam
A people without a language is a people without a soul

Chan fhiach cuirm gun a còmhradh.
A feast is no use without good talk.

Sanskrit
भाषा प्रशस्ता सुमनो लतेव
केषाम्न चेतांस्यावर्जयति।
(bhāṣā praśastā sumano lateva
keṣām na cetāṃsy āvarjayati)
Language, auspicious, charming, like a creeper, whose minds does it not win over?
- sūkta - traditional maxim

Portuguese
Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa.
My homeland is the portuguese language.
- Fernando Pessoa