Giancarlo Esposito Quotes

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

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

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

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.

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.

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

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.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I talk bilingual.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

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 can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

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.

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