Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

Once you’ve made the commitment to learn a language, don’t hold back.  Put lots of effort into it and it will pay off.  Words, phrases, fragments of sentences, understood or spoken, open windows on society, revealing the richness that lies within its culture.

In 2006 I helped found a home for orphaned children in Africa, where I lived much of my youth.. Read  more about this most wonderful endeavour.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats