Claire Fox Quotes

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.

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

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

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.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

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

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

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

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

A different language is a different vision of life.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

A common language is critical to cohesion and national identity in an ethnically diverse society

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I can speak passable Mandarin. I will not be translating at the U.N. anytime soon.

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

There are many Bollywood actresses who work in the South and speak Tamil or Malayalam, and though it is correct, we find it funny sometimes.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

It's always lovely to know new languages.