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Turkish Proverbs
1.       Delidolu
344 posts
 06 Aug 2008 Wed 12:02 pm

Günaydın arkadaşlar!!!!

I´m trying to remember a turkish proverb-it goes like

"Βir insan bir lisan"

or

"Bir lisan bir insan" ?

I think it´s meaning is that learning different languages is like being a different person...or something like that!

Yardım için tşk ederim!!!

2.       Faruk
1607 posts
 06 Aug 2008 Wed 11:13 pm

Merhaba Delidolu,

That proverb is "Bir lisan bir insan"

And there is also: "Bir dil bir insan, iki dil iki insan"

Literally tanslation is "One language, one person". That means: if you know one language you are a person; but if you know two languages, you are two persons. When you learn more than one language, you also learn another culture. And that makes you another person.

3.       Delidolu
344 posts
 07 Aug 2008 Thu 12:08 am

Quoting Faruk:

Merhaba Delidolu,

That proverb is "Bir lisan bir insan"

And there is also: "Bir dil bir insan, iki dil iki insan"

Literally tanslation is "One language, one person". That means: if you know one language you are a person; but if you know two languages, you are two persons. When you learn more than one language, you also learn another culture. And that makes you another person.



cok tsk ederim

4.       peacetrain
1905 posts
 08 Sep 2008 Mon 01:53 pm

 

Modified:  Oops sorry , I didn´t realise this was in the language forum.  I saw the proverb and used the search engine to find a thread.  I´ve moved it elsewhere

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