Petr Cech Quotes

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

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

You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.

Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.

The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they don't speak the language and they can't deliver the lines or even speak to the director. But in terms of Asian-American actresses, we all speak it fluently!

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

It's important to get to know people, to get an idea of the culture of a club, and to understand how it works.

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.

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.

If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

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

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

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

Americans' scandalous incompetence in foreign languages also explains our dangerously inadequate understanding of world affairs.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I've always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking and doing accents and things like that.

I'm always going to be working on my English, and I'm always going to work on my English so that I can do different characters from different nationalities.

When the media's around, I try to be careful. I don't want to make a mistake or use bad language, and I have to really concentrate because of the language barrier.

With Singaporeans, you speak English, you're well-educated, the doors open everywhere.

I've pretty much played every regional accent you can play in the U.K. I've played German, French, Arabic; I've been Jordanian, Lebanese. I've covered a lot of ground.