Suzuka Nakamoto Quotes

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

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

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own 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

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

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.

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa - that's the story of my life!

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

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.

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.

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

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

Anyone that was raised with a Germanic language will agree that our tone is strong, especially once translated into English.

Basically as someone who grew up in Delhi, crooning in southern languages which I don't understand is very difficult.

I think speaking English is beautiful.

I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.