Juliette Binoche Quotes

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.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

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.

It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa - that's the story of my life!

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

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

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 think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

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

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the 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.

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

I spoke Franglais growing up.