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Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.
My shirt and my hat always say 'World Champion' in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, 'Star Wars' language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.
I know what the structure of the language is.
I had to know at least two languages.
Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.
I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.
Asian face and local language skills to handle the cash. I had just returned to the States from Vietnam, having left the military under a cloud, the origins of which I was able to understand only years later. My mother, the American half of the marriage, had just died; I had no brothers or sisters;
I just love dialects; they're really fun.
Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom.
Love, my ass. The international language is food.
Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.
If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.
Interestingly, the only class that Eric actually enjoyed in Korea was math. He noticed it on his first day of school. Something was very different about how math was taught in Korea. Something that not even Minnesota had figured out.
I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
It is typically Norwegian to be good
It is my second visit to Korea since the International Junior Athletic Championships in 1992. Both then and now, I felt Korea is an interesting country and the people are very kind.
In the end, she chose both. Korean and American. American and Korean. So they would know where they were from. So they would know where they were going.
I speak two languages, Body and English.
I'm smart cause I'm Korean, I'm not so smart cause I'm from the south. They cancel each other out, so I'm even.
An interesting fact is that the town of Bau-Bau in Sulawesi, Indonesia, selected Hangeul in 2009 to write the Cia-Cia language.2 Who knows, maybe Hangeul will become one of the universal phonetic languages in the world!
I know my own heart to be entirely English.
Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.
...the intranslatable intonations of a foreigner, the inevitable cross-cultural misunderstandings lurking in tones and glances and assumptions.
As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.
I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?
I have a good ear for languages.
That's Chinese, not Japanese
Do I Need to Learn Hangul? The short answer is "yes." The long answer is also "yes.
I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.
Japanese tea ceremony,
Stupid, perfect Asian kid
she likes the sound of languages other than English.
And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.
The most satisfying of languages, Latin.
In America, he said, it's even hard to stay Korean.
I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
It's it, it's them it really doesn't matter. The languages are complex, as far I can tell.
What is love? In English.
My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.
So, it's like calling out for Chinese? An order of Sum Yung Gai with wings?
Close the language-door,
and open the love-window
I think that at heart I am an old-fashioned Chinese, really I am.
Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.
How do you spell it?" I asked. It sounded like Ky-den. Jay spelled it for me. "It's A-I, like Thai food," he explained.
Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.
English. That was where I met him.
You are the language
so universal
you are forgotten
Be my linguist
Turn me
into your words.
German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'
Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube.
I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.
I know karate, and like two other Japanese words - T-SHIRT
Image is an international language.
The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.
Who are you and how do you speak English?
For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.
She is written in a foreign tongue.
My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.
Different languages cut the world into different slices.
I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it's sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours.
I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).
Verbing weirds language.
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture.
Want to get Chinese?"
"I though you cooked."
"Like I know how."
"That's my girl.
I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.
I can translate.
The only international language in the world is a child's cry,
O, h<>ong>oong>w gl<>ong>oong>ri<>ong>oong>us w<>ong>oong>uld it be t<>ong>oong> set my heel up<>ong>oong>n the P<>ong>oong>le and turn myself 360 degrees in a sec<>ong>oong>nd!
depends on all of the people who use the language.
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being
My speak a language my heart knows how to respond to.
We have s<>ong>oong> many v<>ong>oong>ices in us, h<>ong>oong>w d<>ong>oong> we kn<>ong>oong>w which <>ong>oong>nes t<>ong>oong> <>ong>oong>bey?
I'm a multi-lingual Kundalini-dancing shapeshifter to the 69th degree.
I know French, Italian, Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Scottish, English, and American English.
I'm cunninglingual.
Well, I'm English.
Tagalog sounds like boiling water.
Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.
I love you Hyung-nim. Always ... if you ever feel the need to rip me to shreds and eat me, do it. My blood, my flesh, everything is yours. I won't leave you. I love you Hyung-nim.
I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
If Korea were a person, it would be diagnosed as a neurotic, with both an inferiority and a superiority complex.
How do you say yoo-hoo in Arabic?" "I believe that yoo-hoo could be part of a universal language," Dan said. "Like ow. Or- you're stepping on my foot." "That's universal?" "No, you're stepping on my foot. Ow." Amy moved.
I'm an Asian with a Southern accent. To a lot of people, that right there is funny.
My homeland is the portuguese language.
You mean something untranslatable.
To be honest, I'm not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.
I joke around all the time, 'I'm Asian; I'm really good at math.'
I don't know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.
German? I don't know what that means ... we don't say that in America
I speak two languages: English and Sarcasm.
I can ask for cigarettes in every language
I speak the language of television.
As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
I want to start where language ends.
On a recent flight from Tokyo to Beijing, at around the time that my lunch tray was taken away, I remembered that I needed to learn Mandarin. "Goddamnit," I whispered. "I knew I forgot something.