Carlos Ruiz Quotes

Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.

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

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

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

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

From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

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

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with Pierre-Emerick, you had to switch to English, which is the language most players understand.

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.

Basketball definitely helped, because even though I couldn't speak English, I was able to spend a lot of time with my teammates, which helped me learning English a lot.

It's not easy for a foreigner to come to England and win the respect of your team-mates, of the fans, and of the English people.

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

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

They say that immigrants don’t speak English. So? Who cares. Even the Irish learned English after a while.

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