Lewis Tappan Quotes

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

Seize every opportunity of learning to converse in the vulgar tongues spoken in your realm. It is unworthy of a prince to be unable without an interpreter to hold intercourse with his people…. The ties that bind monarch and people should be woven of mutual affection, and how is this possible where free and intelligible communication cannot exist?

Basically as someone who grew up in Delhi, crooning in southern languages which I don't understand is very difficult.

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.

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.

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

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

Music is common language. I can sing 'Bebot' in front of white people and they will dance.

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

The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.

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

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

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

Cultural exchange rarely takes place on equal terms.

Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character.

People and their cultures perish in isolation, but they are born and reborn in contact with other men and women, with man and woman or another culture, another creed, another race.