Quotes About Language

Spanish was my first language. Honestly, I learned to first speak in Spanish, not English, because my poor mother had to go to San Diego every day to work and then come back. And she would come home when I was an infant long after I was asleep.

I tell all my students, 'Learn how to code.' It's sort of like learning Spanish in third grade. When you're still young and you still have that sort of agile mind, that's when you should do it.

I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people.

We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.

It would be great to have more Spanish players at Manchester United.

That, to me, is the real crossover: a mainstream artist singing in Spanish.

Spanish is my first language.

To be blunt, I feel like lyricism in Spanish is of a different quality than English. You can get really poetic in Spanish, but I feel like if you do that in English, you risk sounding cheesy. In Spanish, it's never that. It's always this deep, passionate, beautiful imagery; it's painted different, a different color.

It's strange that we don't see more English players going to the Spanish league.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

I actually speak Spanish fluently.

Now that I'm older, I appreciate my culture and I appreciate Spanish. I feel bad I didn't pick up on it earlier.

Actually, between Colombian and Mexican Spanish, there's not a huge difference, but it is a different accent.

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can't be another 'Feliz Navidad.'

Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it's really cool to go to different cultures and societies and see how the littlest things we do as performers influence the biggest things.

I've been trying to learn Spanish, but it has been hard for me. It's a slow process, but I'm trying.

Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people want.

I've always said that I love the Spanish league.

I'm not too bad at reading, but I've got a bit of a confidence problem with speaking, with going from Scouse to Spanish.

I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union's states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.

A lot of people say I'm not Mexican because I don't speak a lot of Spanish or am there a lot, but the United States is where it's at. Mexico's in my blood, in my DNA. It's in my kids' DNA.

It's part of my challenge as an actor, not only speaking English but speaking Spanish with a Mexican accent.

I speak fluent Spanish. I also speak Italian and I was once pretty decent at German.