Gael Garcia Bernal Quotes

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.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

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

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

Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language.

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.

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

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

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

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.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

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

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

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.

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.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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

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

I talk bilingual.

I'd love to master another language properly.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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