Quotes About Language

Everywhere I have gone in the world, even though we don't speak the same language, food is the same language.

My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in English, sort of like what happens on 'Jane.'

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

I am a south Indian, so I speak Tamil.

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.

My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

I was born in Spain, I know the culture there, and lived most of my life there, but I have Malian origins too. For me it's a beautiful thing that I can have both. I can be in both countries, speak the language, blend in in two cultures.

I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

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.

I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I'm born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don't speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker.

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'

In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.

I want to take it really far in Spanish; even non-Spanish speakers listen to my music across the world. Even though they don't know what I'm saying, they really feel it. We want to take it to another level and keep building our name. We want to take it really far just in Spanish.