Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds - they lose a lot of their parents' and grandparents' teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at S...
Harry Block: The most important words in the English language are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to lea...
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image ...
Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.
Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.
But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.
I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
