Alexander Dreymon Quotes

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.

When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which is not my native language.

When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations.

My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.

IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture…. We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society. Learn the language! …. If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

I actually love the challenge of being in a new place where I'm so obviously the foreigner.