Thanks to @simonhowells for this suggestion. And thanks to @josepicardo as I understand Simon saw it on José’s website!

This is one of my favourite comments on language learning.

Over the next few days I’ll be posting some ‘posters’ featuring quotations responding to the question Why learn languages?

Here’s the first, featuring a quotation from Wittgenstein.

Had a little play around again with Wallwisher and made a wall of Christmas songs in Spanish and Catalan.

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