Daniel Alarcon Quotes

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 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 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 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.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

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

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

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

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

French was my first language.

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he used to speak in English. He wanted us to be quite fluent in English, especially when he was trying to correct our behavior; he would do that in English.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

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

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

Mom developed an interest in 'heritage-language education after noticing an increasing number of students in her UCLA classes whose parents were Russian.

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 learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.