Even if you become fluent in a second language, you don't understand it the same as the language you grew up with and that your mother spoke to you in. -Ruth Hubbard

 

Even if you become fluent in a second language, you don't understand it the same as the language you grew up with and that your mother spoke to you in.


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This quote is just one of 5 total Ruth Hubbard quotes in our collection. Ruth Hubbard is known for saying 'Even if you become fluent in a second language, you don't understand it the same as the language you grew up with and that your mother spoke to you in.' as well as some of the following quotes.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Ruth Hubbard

When they [people of minority languages] read it in their heart language for the first time, they are inevitably blown away.

Ruth Hubbard

We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happening in the same way in every place.

Ruth Hubbard

Even if you become fluent in a second language, you don't understand it the same as the language you grew up with and that your mother spoke to you in.

Ruth Hubbard