I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.
I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.
When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.
I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.