Quotes About Bilingual

I was born in Santa Monica but brought up abroad so I don't use English much.

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

My parents made it a point that, although I was born and raised in New York City, I needed to speak Spanish because they wanted me to be able to communicate with my elders when I went to Santo Domingo or when my family came to visit from Cuba.

When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

In Spanish, I record a lot of single-voice tracks, and in English, I 'stack' a lot of voices, so it's very different, and I think I got so used to recording in Spanish for six years that it was really refreshing and challenging to get in and record 'Double Vision' in English.

Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best.

I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.

I'll move back to Wales if and when I have children. I want them to speak the language I speak, but I love living in London. It's my favourite city in the whole world. I love it because it's not England, it's London.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

Although it permits the use of students' native language "to clarify key concepts," this weak form of bilingual instruction has no support in educational research.

Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.

Yu Keng had been working under Viceroy Zhang, who put him in charge of dealing with clashes between the local population and Christian missions in the provinces. The bilingual Louisa Pierson was able to talk to both sides, helping to smooth out misunderstandings and resolve disputes.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

The two men spoke in German, although von Hessen, who had spent years living in Italy, could also speak Italian

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

French-English

One of the advantage of being an immigrant is that two very different countries are forced to merge within you. The language you were born speaking and the one you will probably die speaking have no choice but to find a common place in your brain and regularly merge there.

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

When I have to switch back and forth, it's not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It's like speaking multiple languages.

My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

You are now bilingual, bicultural, and binational. You are not less. You are more.