Karamo Brown Quotes

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

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

There,” she said triumphantly. “Like that.” He began to wonder if they were speaking the same language. “Like what?” “That! What you just said.” He crossed his arms. It seemed the only acceptable reply. If she couldn’t speak in complete sentences, he saw no reason why he had to speak at all.

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

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.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

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

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

I couldn't get along with the French.

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

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'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.

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!

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

You can't share things about India with Americans, as they don't seem interested. Their culture is different.

I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you speak to their heart. I've always tried to let players see that.