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I talk bilingual.
Luis Fonsi /
Talk
Bilingual
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I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.
Henry Cejudo / Olympic Athlete
Bilingual
Spanish
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I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.
David Henry Hwang / Playwright
Chinese
Bilingual
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All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Hockey
Player
Profanity
Bilingual
English
Players
Hockey Players
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American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
Gordie Howe / Ice Hockey Player
Profanity
Speak
Athletes
Bilingual
Professional Athletes
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Of course, yes, I watched 'Dora' growing up. I'm bilingual, and she's like my icon.
Isabela Moner /
Bilingual
Icon
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I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.
Genesis Rodriguez / Film Actress
New Generation
Representing
Bilingual
People New Generation
Latinos
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I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
Jon Secada / Singer-Songwriter
Community
Sight
Singing
Bilingual
Languages
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My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.
Celine Buckens / Actress
Bilingual
French
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Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'
Dave Chappelle / Comedian
Funny
Jobs
Black
Speak
Vernacular
Job
American
Bilingual
Them
Every
Street
Interview
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Among the disciples of Jesus, it seems most likely that at least Philip was bilingual in Aramaic and Greek.
Jay Parini /
Philip
Bilingual
Disciples
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I came here when I was almost 22. I'm perfectly bilingual, but I'm never going to sound like Sandra Bullock.
Roselyn Sanchez / Singer-Songwriter
Bilingual
Perfectly
Sandra
Sandra Bullock
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Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been.
Stephen Harper / Prime Minister Of Canada
Canada
Mistake
Bilingual
In Fact
Make No Mistake
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In 'Solo,' I play a girl, who is full of life. Since it is a bilingual, the character has two names in two languages.
Neha Sharma /
Solo
Bilingual
Languages
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Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.
Mani Ratnam /
Dialect
Setting
Bilingual
Practical
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If you're making music for the U.S. Latin fan, it's important that you sing in Spanish. Even going too bilingual can backfire.
Nicky Jam / Singer
Latin
Bilingual
Sing
Spanish
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I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.
Deborah Raney / Author
Bidding
Love Amazing World
Bilingual
Third
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I think we are living in an age where we really need to have bilingual leaders so that we can communicate with our constituents.
Aja Brown /
Communicate
Bilingual
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Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
Amish Tripathi / Author
Disdain
Unfortunate
Urban
Bilingual
Languages
Elite
Indians
Regional
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Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.
Rose Leslie / Actress
Lessons
Mum And Dad
Bilingual
Hugely
Sent
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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.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Men
Favourite
Mean
Notion
Thinking
Bilingual
Languages
Fair
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Idioms
Topic
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My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in English, sort of like what happens on 'Jane.'
Andrea Navedo /
Home
Grandmother
Happens
Jane
Everyone
Bilingual
English
Sort
Preferred
She
Spanish
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My films have become bilingual. When everyone saw 'Chennai Express,' they said it was a bilingual. But I am proud that 'Chennai Express' is the highest-grossing Hindi film down South.
Rohit Shetty / Film Director
Hindi
Bilingual
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My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
Patrick O'brian / Novelist
France
Switzerland
Bilingual
French
Little Girl
Purely
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'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's really beautiful. But it's very emotional and very dark - in a good way.
India Arie /
Dark
Good Way
Hebrew
World Music
Good Great Music
Bilingual
English
Good Music Great
Door
Project
Open Door
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I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they do not consider you bilingual. They may call you bi-ignorant because you can't speak any language.
Tim Scott / United States Senator
Geography
Bilingual
English
Consider
Failed
Fail
Spanish
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I'm from the island of St. Lucia in the Caribbean in the Lesser Antilles, the lower part of the archipelago, which is a bilingual island - French, Creole, and English - but my education is in English.
Derek Walcott / Poet
Education
Caribbean
Creole
Bilingual
English
Part
French
Island
Lesser
Lower
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My work, my love of words, became my refuge, both when I was working on bilingual dictionaries for Oxford University Press and then via my involvement with 'Countdown' - and now 'Catsdown,' as I call it.
Susie Dent / Lexicographer
Involvement
Oxford
Refuge
University
Became
Bilingual
Dictionaries
Press
Via
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My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.
Robert Lepage /
Household
Barely
Bilingual
Languages
Count
Entertained
Great Pride
Hardly
Perfectly
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
Daniel Bruhl / Film Actor
Thankful
Home Mother Always
German
Bilingual
Brought
Languages
Spanish
Spoke
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You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.
Emily Rios / Actress
Understood
Always Me Parents
Me Parents School
Teachers
Bilingual
Spanish
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I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
Robert Rodriguez / Film Director
Generations
Bilingual
Primarily
Third
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
Daniel Bruhl / Film Actor
Thankful
Home
Father
House
Mother
Home Mother Always
Because
Very
Always
German
Bilingual
Both
Brought
Languages
First
Well
Spanish
Spoke
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I was born in Germany and grew up immersed in international school communities. I was in the German bilingual track, spent a few years in rural Canada, and then went to the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy.
Sophie Hawley-Weld /
Born
Canada
College
Germany
Grew
International
School
Track
United
Years
Then
German
Bilingual
Communities
Few
Immersed
Italy
Rural
Spent
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An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
Sonia Sotomayor / Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Happiness
Diabetes
Father
Juvenile
Mother
My Own
Poverty
Thinking
Mother People Father
Since
Although
Bilingual
English
Parents
Intrude
Limited
Spoke
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History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual.
Richard Lamm / Former Governor Of Colorado
Antagonism
Blessing
Competing
Conflict
Curse
Tension
Bilingual
Languages
Cultures
In My Opinion
Survive
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I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1948 but grew up in a black neighborhood. During elementary and middle school, I commuted to a bilingual school in Chinatown. So I did not confront white American culture until high school.
Laurence Yep / Writer
American Culture
Chinatown
Middle School
Neighborhood
Bilingual
Confront
Elementary
Francisco
San
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I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.
Michael Trevino / Actor
Mom
Ashamed
Babysitter
Lost
Together
White
Words
Understand
Bilingual
Brought
Came
Fluently
Point
Sadly
Spanish
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Rubio's supporters must believe rank-and-file Republican voters are really stupid - or so desperate they can be persuaded that up is down, a leopard can change its spots, and a dozen bilingual unicorns will lead off Rubio's inaugural parade.
Tom Tancredo / Former United States Representative
Desperate
Dozen
Spots
Voters
Bilingual
Leopard
Parade
Persuaded
Supporters
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'Maaligai,' where I play a dual role of a cop and a princess, initially was to be made as a Kannada movie. My producers from Mumbai and director Dil Sathya felt that it should be made as a bilingual in Tamil also, as I have a good market in K'town.
Andrea Jeremiah /
Cop
Mumbai
Princess
Producers
Bilingual
Dual
Initially
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My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.
David Henry Hwang / Playwright
Barriers
Broadway
Businessman
China
Communicate
White
Across
Bilingual
Capital
Deal
Cultural
Goes
Hoping
Provincial
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My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
Ernest Istook / Former United States Representative
America
Backgrounds
Common
Different Backgrounds
Father
Immigrants
Principles
Son
Taught
Bilingual
Spoke
Unite
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American histories were the same; they had these mad ideas about how Parliament worked, or what people really meant when they said A, B, or C. All my life, I felt simultaneously deracinated and rooted in both places, and now it's my greatest strength: I'm culturally bilingual.
Amanda Foreman /
Parliament
Rooted
Life Strength My Life
All My Life
Bilingual
Greatest Strength
Histories
Simultaneously
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As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.
John Ridley / Screenwriter
Cnn
Small Town
Wisconsin
Bilingual
Msnbc
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Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.
Sendhil Mullainathan / Professor
Experiments
Midway
Numbers
Speakers
Stride
Bilingual
Similar
Stumble
Switch
Tries
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My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.
Romeo Santos / Singer-Songwriter
Bronx
Easier
Raised
States
Young Age
Across
Bilingual
Exactly
Express
Spanish
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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!
Tatiana De Rosnay / Journalist
Mere
Vice Versa
Life Always Me
Life Me Process
Bilingual
Interview
Interview Somebody
Sentence
Versa
Vice
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