Zhang Yimou Quotes

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

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.

It's hard for me to perform in English.

When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that time was very average.

Now I speak English.

English is not my first language.

I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

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.

French was my first language.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

I speak Hebrew excellently.

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

The President [George W. Bush] speaks Spanish almost as well as he speaks English.

Being able to be dry in a second language is almost the last thing you learn.

Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.

I think English is very important for tennis players. To be on the tour, it's much more easier if you speak English. So that's why I knew that I have to improve my English.

It's good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.

I used to speak Italian.

It's very difficult to write in Russian for someone who has never been schooled in Russian.

My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

My English is not very good-looking.