Fredrik Bajer Quotes

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.

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

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

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

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

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

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.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I was six or seven and an interpreter.

I speak all my languages basically every day with the people in the dressing room, and it's a pleasure to be able to do so. On the pitch, if it's a group of players I'm trying to communicate with, then I use English because you need to make sure everyone understands what you are saying.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

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

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

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

Of course we may have any number of translations of a given text - the more the better, really.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America.

To me, a big crossover was what happened to me years ago, like bringing my music in Spanish to Europe, or Asia. To me, that's a crossover because Spanish is not a language that everybody talks.

My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.

I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign language. You're liberated or freed from preconceptions.

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