"On #planet #earth every two weeks another #language dies, no more #people are speaking it. (...) Maybe I'm from the #Amazon and my habitat is cut down and I loose my #culture. (...) In two weeks (...) for two groups of people around the #world, for two cultures, that means the death of their language, the death of their #methodology, their #history, their #folklore, their understanding of the world."

"Breaking the language barrier"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xNmf-G81Irs

#TimDoner at #TEDxTeen
(from 2014)

"If you talk to a man in a second #language, you're talking to his brain, if you talk to him in his mother language, you're talking to his heart."
#NelsonMandela

"If you raise people up with other #languages, you open them up to foreign cultures, to foreign ideas and (...) you give them opportunities for new connections when they get older."
#TimDoner

Speaking 20 languages at the age of 17 - wow!

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Km9-DiFaxpU
(from 2013)

#LanguageLearning