What does it mean?
Learning a new language does more than give you new words: it gives you a new way of feeling, thinking and seeing the world.
Key vocabulary
- possess
- to have or own something
Who said it?
Charlemagne: Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperor (c. 747–814).
These exact words are widely credited to Charlemagne, but they don’t appear in their known work. They may be a later paraphrase or a misattribution.