language barrier quotes

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

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

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.