Warsaw, Poland

One-Year Language Programme

Kurs roczny językowy

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One-Year Language Programme at PJATK

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
University website: www.pja.edu.pl/en/

Definitions and quotes

Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Language
Henry Drummond: Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damned few words that anybody understands!
Inherit the Wind (1960 film), Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
Language
Well languag'd Danyel.
William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, Book II. Song 2, line 303.
Language
Many languages fly around the world
producing sparks when they collide
sometimes of hate
sometimes of love
Bei Dao, "Language", in The August Sleepwalker, trans. Bonnie S. McDougall (New York: New Directions, 1990), p. 121

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