Petr Cech Quotes

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

English is not my first language.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

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

Miami is America’s most diverse city… We have 140 languages we speak..

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.

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.

I'm definitely a fan of giving a German-speaking team a German-speaking coach.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.