Justin Theroux Quotes

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

Americans' scandalous incompetence in foreign languages also explains our dangerously inadequate understanding of world affairs.

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.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I grew up thinking that I would be an ambassador secret agent. From age 14 to right before I graduated college, I was really interested in the foreign service and the United Nations. I learned to speak French, Turkish, and all these things.

It has to be said that one of the most impressive aspects of the parliament are the brilliant unsung translators, who ensure that whatever language you speak, you are understood.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.

I think we should have a President who is fluent in at least one language.