Emmanuelle Seigner Quotes

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.

I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

I wish I knew more languages.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

English is not my first language.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

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

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

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.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.