Sandrine Holt Quotes

England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

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.

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

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

I originally went to Edinburgh for Latin, which I love and the literature is incredible, but then I suddenly realised that languages are so crucial for working in the fashion industry and it is wonderful when you can communicate with everyone.

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

Language is no barrier. I watch Telugu movies, and I really enjoy them.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well as English. And I speak a little bit Japanese because I've had the opportunity to work alongside Japanese people. And a little bit of German, a little bit of Portuguese because of work. A little bit of French because of work. But then, if you asked me to carry-on an everyday conversation, I would fail miserably.

The globalized environment where speaking a lot of languages is rewarded and getting access to learning materials is easier. A talent for massive language learning has not been supported by the environment until very recently, so this is a phenomenon that is going to become more common and more visible.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

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

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

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