Sajid Javid Quotes

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

I want my words to survive translation.

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

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

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

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.

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.

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

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

Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.

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

I only know English, so I feel like I can be the dopest French rapper ever if I learned French.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

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