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Japanese is a very difficult language. -- David Anders
Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people. -- Isamu Akasaki
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. -- Paul Watson
I took Japanese in high school. I'm Chinese, though, and I just fell in love with the language and the culture. -- Matthew Moy
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract. -- Shuji Nakamura
After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. -- Robyn Davidson
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English. -- Laura Bailey
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. -- Abdul Kalam
I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating. -- Miyavi
We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make. -- Howard Baker
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me. -- Arthur Golden
With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave monolingual Britain? Our political leaders like to boast about how global Britain is, but when it comes to languages, it is near the bottom of the global league, together with another island state, Japan. -- Martin Jacques
My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier. -- Alfonso Soriano
The big problem in translating is that we had to translate the language. People may not know that we record the podcast in Japanese, translate it to English and then actors play us on the podcast. I'm not actually Scott Aukerman, I'm the actor who plays his voice on the podcast. Unfortunately, it's cost prohibitive on a television show. -- Scott Aukerman
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell! -- William Halsey
Japanese is a baby talk - very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. ... A very faint kind of language. -- L. Ron Hubbard
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language. -- Larry Wall
The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday. The Japanese water crystal guy? -- Ian Somerhalder
When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language -- Leonard Sweet

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