Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. Luke Harding
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. Mark Twain
Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. Lee Iacocca
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. David Levithan
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language. Jonathan Krohn
Christians have their own language. Mike Warnke