I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.
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Related Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and... CHEECH MARIN I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these lan... CARICE VAN HOUTEN Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak ... CAM NEWTON My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German ... DANIEL BRUHL I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first lan... ODETTE ANNABLE In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to ... ADELE EXARCHOPOULOS I speak Italian, French, Creole and English. META GOLDING I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm no... COTE DE PABLO I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they d... TIM SCOTT I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse. CHARLES V To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to
my horse--German. JASON CHAMBERLAIN I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best ... EVA MENDES I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub my... JODIE FOSTER My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak Engl... OONA CHAPLIN My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, Fre... Q'ORIANKA KILCHER I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish ... SANDRA CISNEROS My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use... ED WEEKS All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're... DAVID ARCHULETA My parents talked to me in Spanish and I answered in English, JOHN LEGUIZAMO I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina. BITSIE TULLOCH I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lif... JOSHUA FOER I speak two languages, Body and English. MAE WEST I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic. TERRY WOGAN We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren... JOANNE HARRIS I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn... SAUL RUBINEK Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English. IMAN You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, w... JUNOT DIAZ I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English bu... GEORGE CRUMB I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speakin... JAVIER BARDEM I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures... PRINCE ROYCE Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English. JUAN FELIPE HERRERA What has changed is the American guys trying to learn Spanish. In the dugout, when I hear the Latin ... JOSE MEJIA When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. ... DAVID DEWHURST Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wan... SHAKIRA On a Sunday, you can be in the lobby and hear more Spanish being spoken than English. MICHAEL MILLS My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spa... ISABEL ALLENDE Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japan... CLARENCE NASH I remember, the first time I came to the United States in 1996, I didn't speak a word of English... JUANES You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I ne... EMILY RIOS Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had t... LA INDIA I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more convers... MEG CABOT I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. MAYA ANGELOU Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted ... SHAKIRA You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say Eng... JOSE MOURINHO I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English. CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me. GERALDO RIVERA I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the l... PATRICIA RIGGEN Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a ... SANDRA CISNEROS I was in art school, and we had all these random classes. We'd listen to a lot of Bollywood. I... KEHLANI When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, P... FRANCOIS HOLLANDE One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I l... ANITA DIAMENT I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO People forget that there are villages and communities that are still speaking French all over Canada... MARC-ANDRE GRONDIN Being a third-generation Mexican-American and speaking English exclusively, I heard Spanish spoken b... CHEECH MARIN I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn&... SALMA HAYEK I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And ... CRISTINA SARALEGUI I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish ... MALUMA In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a lit... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment. ERIK ESTRADA Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we ... DELPHINE ARNAULT When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my ... DANIEL ALARCON My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength,' in Port... NIKKI REED I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. ALAINA HUFFMAN I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. ALEXA DAVALOS The Hispanic population in 2003 is radically different than in 1992, and many of the factors that ha... MARK SCHNEIDER I speak a little Italian and Spanish because of where I grew up. I also am well-versed in Angelino s... BENNY CASSETTE My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore becaus... BELLA THORNE Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I sti... JUANES I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition ... JHUMPA LAHIRI This year we have several baptisms to perform at the Vigil on Saturday. There is a very large Portug... MICHAEL FOLEY When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contac... J. M. G. LE CLEZIO I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremend... MIGUEL I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was you... SCOTTY MCCREERY On the second day I was understanding and speaking French and not having to speak English, just like... LAURA WILSON Giselle has no problem. She does really well in school. Some kids it might affect. They might go to ... SERGIO GARCIA I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital w... ANGELA AHRENDTS I would do 15 minutes in English, then go do 45 minutes in Spanish. It was a lot of work. ALFREDO GUTIERREZ You would teach them English, and they'd teach you Spanish. STEPHANIE EVANS I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't ha... SALMA HAYEK I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, ... CARLOS SANTANA Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch... SAID MUSA There is a funny story I always tell my students... when I came for the first time to the US. I didn... PABLO VALLE I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kid... BECKY G I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all the... ARIEL DORFMAN I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only... RAE CARSON Although Swedish is one of the few languages on this Earth that I enjoy the sound of. That and Japan... CASPAR VEGA I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I... AMERICA FERRERA I always play with long sleeves because Beckham always did it. He is my idol. He had a lot of class ... ANTOINE GRIEZMANN I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak Fr... SEAN CONNERY My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only st... ODETTE ANNABLE I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... JESSICA HAGEDORN I understand a little English from my days in Dallas. But when they speak French, I'm lost. Sometime... ELIAS MARTINEZ It's a very interesting process to write in English because all my literary resources come from Span... SHAKIRA I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my... LUKE PASQUALINO 'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you... HUGH GRANT We hope that English speakers and Spanish speakers will come together for these events. KATINA BARKSDALE I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and ... RANDY FALCO So you speak French?" Isabelle sighed. "I wish I spoke another language. But Hodge never thought we ... CASSANDRA CLARE
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COLIN SEBASTIAN You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get t... SEBASTIAN STAN I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters. SEBASTIAN PINERA ...at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last ... SEBASTIAN FAULKS I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, h... SEBASTIAN THRUN With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, w... SEBASTIAN THRUN Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admi... SEBASTIAN THRUN Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr... SEBASTIAN KOCH Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes. JOHN SEBASTIAN You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes. JOHN SEBASTIAN My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm fi... SEBASTIAN FAULKS I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambit... SEBASTIAN COE For me, it depends only on the script, the part I'm doing, and the people around me. It could be... SEBASTIAN KOCH We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government ha... SEBASTIAN PINERA People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried... SEBASTIAN JUNGER The word 'lobby' is one of those loaded terms that sounds like a political dirty bag of tricks. DONALD SEBASTIAN A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will des... SEBASTIAN JUNGER When people hear that I'm a neuroscientist, they ask me tough questions. 'Will grandpa learn... SEBASTIAN SEUNG Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older s... JOHN SEBASTIAN [Coe, a knighted exemplar of measured eloquence, does not giggle and break into giddy trot lightly. ... SEBASTIAN COE […] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […] SEBASTIAN HORSLEY The neural code usually refers to how your current thoughts and feelings and perceptions are encoded... SEBASTIAN SEUNG The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very... SEBASTIAN MARINCOLO The legalization of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, a... SEBASTIAN MARINCOLO I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, w... SEBASTIAN HORSLEY We can blame turnovers and defense and you can blame Ray Allen also. He hit shots like I can't even ... SEBASTIAN TELFAIR Right here, this is MSG. We call it the Garden. 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