Eiza Gonzalez Quotes

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

French was my first language.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.

Spanish is my first language.

I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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.

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.

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

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

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

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.