“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”

Nelson Mandela explained why he learned Afrikaans, the language of his prison guards in South Africa: “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”

Another great reason to learn French if you want to reach the hearts of the French when you talk to them 🙂