Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes

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

When you arrive in L.A. as an Englishman, you might as well be on the moon. People just don't understand you if you speak too fast, and most people there think you're Australian. Ordering was incredibly complicated. I was speechless.

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

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each other. To Strange's surprize Childermass understood perfectly and even addressed one or twoquestions to Minervois in his own language. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

I'm anti-globalisation. There is nothing more enriching than to go out into the world and meet people different to you. We must fight the spread of a singular way of thinking and preserve cultural differences.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

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

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

Everyone thinks England and America are the same, as we have the same language, but I felt like an alien as an English person living in America.

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

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

The relationship I have with my Hispanic fans is very deep and intricate.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

It's always nice to have somebody with the same accent when you're working in a foreign country.

I felt like the Germans were being mean to me at training, but they were actually just trying to help. I learned really quick - which made me a better player. I'm appreciative of the way they treated me. It's just the language and, of course, as an American, I had to learn that. No offense to them; I love them to death, and I love my teammates.

As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the rules of conversation in three countries. Paradoxically, these rules are almost always unspoken.

I have some English words on the first album, but any time I try to do it, you miss something. You think it's just a simple translation from French to English, but it's so different as far as the understanding.

Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history is one.