Thomas Jefferson Quotes

French was my first language.

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

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 speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I really love Anglo music, and the language as well. Like, my kids, they - born here, Miami. So I just - a little bit more familiar with the language.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

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.

It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.

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!

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

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

When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

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.

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

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

I am more comfortable with Tamil than Hindi.

I actually speak Spanish fluently.