Quotes About Language

Alec's Spanish is getting better and better. His accent is very good.

Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American film. It's usually from another country.

Learn Spanish and realize that youll fail, go for that risk assignment at work, try building a relationship with that new client, raise your hand in that meeting to ask that question.

When I go to Colombia or Mexico, I speak Spanish. When I go to Italy, I speak Italian. When I'm in Germany, I speak German. Would I expect them to speak English in these countries? No. I mean, great if they do, but no. Would I be offended if in Spain they say we speak Spanish? No. If I was an immigrant there, no.

You never know what little idea or joke, what flame flickering really quickly, will become a song. That first idea, it can come any time. If it's in Spanish, you go on in Spanish. If it's in French, French. If it's in English, English. Or Portuguese. I'll try to do my best. I like Italian, though I don't speak it much.

I never watched British television. I bought myself a satellite for French, Spanish and Portuguese TV, instead.

I speak Spanish, not perfectly; it's definitely my second language.

Some of my closest friends are Angelo Ogbonna, who's Italian, and Pablo Fornals who is Spanish. His English is good but is not proper. There's enough for me to understand what he's got to say and we can go out and have a meal and be able to speak to each other through it so it is quality.

If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story. Only if the sentences 'sparkle' can I get hooked.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

I speak Italian and a little bit of French. I moved to Trento, Italy, when I was around 10 to learn Italian. I have family there. I'm trying to restart my French. And then I want to get into Mandarin.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

Icons speak icon language.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.

How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.

People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.

I didn't speak English when I had my first job in motorsports.