Claudia Kim Quotes

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

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

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

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

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

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

Bilingual education doesn’t work, and it has never worked.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

When I was 10 years old, we moved to Spain with my mother. I learned Spanish before I learned English. But the English language stayed with me.

I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something - I worked in HR at the time - they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.

The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get to the age of 10, you pick up another language. I speak a bit of Russian, a bit of English, a bit of Spanish a bit of French.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

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

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

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it.

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

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

I work, play and do everything in French.

Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.