Ike Turner Quotes

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese.

I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

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.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.

Cheap goods are the artillery for battering down Chinese walls and for overcoming the obstinate hatred entertained against foreigners by semi-civilised nations

Russians would make charming visitors at New-Yorke, and civilize that part of America wonderfully.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

… a polyglot boarding house

Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.

China is just so different from the rest of the world.

Feliz Navidad' has interfaced the English and Spanish cultures to come together and after all, we're living in a multi-cultural world.

New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is exchanged today over e-mail, chat rooms, TV, etc.

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

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

It's good to be around an English manager.