Fernandinho Quotes

I learned how to speak English watching television.

Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.

I want to speak better English.

I find the scouse accent a bit difficult, but I will try my best.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

The first thing I have to do to erase my French accent is think that it is actually possible, whereas for the moment, I think it's not. I have a lot of work.

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

Journalism keeps you planted in the earth.

When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

I don't read the papers; I don't listen to radio.

I am learning English and can understand better than I can speak it. But having said that, I am learning as quickly as I can.

Though I work in broadcasting and host a daily radio show, I got my start in print journalism.