Park Won-soon Quotes

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history is one.

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character.

I wish more Americans would travel here. I always encourage my friends: 'Travel. See the Middle East. There's so much to see, so many good people.' And it's vice versa, and it helps stop problems of misunderstanding and stereotypes from happening.

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can't be another 'Feliz Navidad.'

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don't judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.