Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

My publication, 'The Post,' has taken the initiative to translate many of my pieces and publish them in Arabic. For that, I am grateful. Arabs need to read in their own language so they can understand and discuss the various aspects and complications of democracy in the United States and the West.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

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 was six or seven and an interpreter.

Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

I've had fans coming up to me and speaking Chinese or Japanese. It's not a case of mistaken nationality. I just don't think they realise that we don't all speak the same language.

I can speak English on the field but it's difficult with media.

Our Japanese fans don't speak English primary. They'll translate a sentence before coming and say something like, 'Thank you for coming to our country.' It's like, you're welcome. Thanks for coming to our show!

Though most of my titles are translated into about 7 to 8 languages, I feel that translations, to some extent, can lose the flavour of the colloquial words used otherwise in the regional narrative.

In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with Pierre-Emerick, you had to switch to English, which is the language most players understand.

The barrier of communication is terrible if you don't speak the language. You cannot reach a player with a translator.

I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something - I worked in HR at the time - they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

For me, it's a big challenge to translate everything in English.

Language is no barrier. I watch Telugu movies, and I really enjoy them.

Art and cinema is not restricted to any language.

Language is important, I know, for the TV show, so a lot of people watches 'WWE' everywhere. Asia, Africa... some people don't understand English like me. That's why I use facial expressions and body motions.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

Sometimes I wonder how my life would have worked out if my books had been translated into English sooner, because English is the language that's spoken worldwide, and when a book appears in English it is made universal, it becomes a global publication.

When people heard my voice, they were shocked that I could speak Hindi.

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.