Jenova Chen Quotes

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

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

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

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

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

My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.

I have a funny accent in every language.

There is always that age-old thing about England and America being divided by a common language. You think that because we speak English and you speak English that you're bound to understand and like everything that we do. And of course you don't.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

Sometimes when people can't speak English, they hum the melody instead of singing along. Having 20,000 people humming your song is incredible.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.

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

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.

Art and cinema is not restricted to any language.

I think that a lot of teams aren't as close-knit as we are because a lot of the Spanish speakers don't know English and some of the English guys don't care to try and learn Spanish and relate to Latin players.

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

It took me a while to figure out the U.S. sense of humor, a lot of trial and error. I would write down jokes to casually tell my American friend over Skype to see which ones he'd laugh at.