Juan Pablo Galavis Quotes

I talk bilingual.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

English is not my first language.

I had to know at least two languages.

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.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

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

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

I have a funny accent in every language.

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

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

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.

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.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.