Language Understanding Quotes

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

My Chinese name is Chen Wei. I can speak a tiny, tiny bit, just basically get around, but I understand it decently well.

I know what the structure of the language is.

Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?

I speak English my way, but people understand it. You can understand everything I say, and that's the most important thing.

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

Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing, how will you perform? For me, it is important to know the language.

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

I can speak English, Portuguese, and a bit of Spanish, or Sportugal. It's a mix of Portuguese and Spanish. I understand French and Italian, but I can't speak them.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

I don't speak but understand Gujarati.

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.

We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I'm using are fairly ordinary words, the concepts around which they cluster, which are the long concepts of literary tradition, may not be familiar to an audience.

Though I can speak only tooti futi Gujarati, I can understand it completely.

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

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