Yami Gautam Quotes

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

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.

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

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

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

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

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 also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.

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

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

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

I went to an English school and was brought up in English. So I don't feel Czech.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.

I talk bilingual.

I wish I knew more languages.

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

I learned English, French, Italian.