Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

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

Honestly if I had the time, I would love to learn every language in the world. I love connecting to people. If I can't do it through language, I will try to do it through my music.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

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

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of 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 speak to the Spanish players that we have in Spanish.

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

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each 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.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

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

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.

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

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

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

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

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

A different language is a different vision of life.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

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

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

English is the medium of communication for people all over India.