Yael Grobglas Quotes

It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

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

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

I had to know at least two languages.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

I talk bilingual.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

English is not my first language.

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.