Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a Ph.D. in medieval Spanish poetry.
I taught high school students Spanish.
What ‘listo’ means in Spanish is this: it means prepared, it means battle-tested, it means rock solid, up for anything, never backing down. And, friends, Hillary Clinton, she is listo!
Spanish is such an important language globally.
I’m fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.
Camila Cabello did an amazing job with ‘Havana.’ It’s Spanish, but it’s English.
Whether you speak English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, everybody can speak wrestling and it’s really cool to go to different cultures and societies and see how the littlest things we do as performers influence the biggest things.
Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
I try to do it in both languages: English and Spanish. But sometimes I just Tweet in Spanish.
We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world.
Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.
I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and… I dabble in a couple of languages, but I’m not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.
I’ve been asked whether knowing Spanish and being Hispanic myself is a positive in getting Hispanic voters, and I don’t believe it is. I think Hispanics look for a friend; they look for someone who understands, whose willing to relate, to hear their issues and welcome them to the party and to their campaigns.
I would love to make a really cool Spanish song, definitely.
Lots of people think that the Premier League would be good for me, but my mum is Spanish, and I really have that dream to play over there.
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.
A lot of people say I’m not Mexican because I don’t speak a lot of Spanish or am there a lot, but the United States is where it’s at. Mexico’s in my blood, in my DNA. It’s in my kids’ DNA.
I am, ‘Guardian’ readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I’ve lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union’s states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners.
It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.
I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‘Lana Del Rey’ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what’s going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda’s poetry. I don’t actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don’t know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.
How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.
The comeback of true green olives was part of a Spanish food revival in the early 2000s. I credit Sam and Sam Clark of Moro Restaurant in London with making them cool again.
When I was a girl, there wasn’t anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.
You know, I grew up Black in America, I grew up close to Spanish Harlem where we ain’t have much money, but we was like all friends and cool and playing and going to school together.
I’ve got Spanish grandparents and I’ve got a connection with Spain. But I consider myself English and I want to play for England.
I’m a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I’m not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn’t sound Spanish.
I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I’m good at listening to people’s problems.
A lot of the books I read are in Spanish. There’s this great author, Garcia Marquez.
Most British tapas bars aren’t bars at all. They’re restaurants that specialise in tapas. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s a bit different from the Spanish way of doing things, in which tapas is an adjunct to the drinks and the general vibe.
I’m trying to find the balance and do, like, ‘Spanglish’ music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
I don’t speak Filipino or Spanish, but I’ve sung in both.
Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be at all the parties and all the events, and I was pretty hard to miss. I was one of the few Spanish cats sitting there with jewelry on, Dapper Dan suits. It was pretty hard to miss me.
Well, I’m trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
In early 2010, we launched our first localized version of ‘WhatsApp’ for iPhone. It included Spanish and German language translations, to name a couple.
If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It’s an alien world to me.
Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.
The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn’t speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.
I don’t think City play a Brazilian style – it is more Spanish the way we play here.
Nobody can doubt Puerto Rico, sociologically, linguistically, culturally, and historically, is a nation. We have our own rich culture, thousand years of history, unique territory, and almost everyone’s first language is Spanish, not English.
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn’t English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
I’m in awe of people who speak other languages not just fluently but near-native. I speak French, Spanish and Portuguese and I’m pretty good, but I’d love to understand all the nuances.
I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band – just for fun – when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
I love watching English football. There are teams in the Premier League that play a style similar to Spanish teams – Arsenal, for example – but in general, it’s much quicker; there’s so much pace.
My maternal great-grandfather Don Juan del Gallego was a Spanish adventurer from Asturias, Spain. He sailed on a galleon ship to the Philippines. He then went to the Bicol region to build a town that eventually became known as Del Gallego.
The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.
I understand Spanish better than I speak it.
When I go to Colombia or Mexico, I speak Spanish. When I go to Italy, I speak Italian. When I’m in Germany, I speak German. Would I expect them to speak English in these countries? No. I mean, great if they do, but no. Would I be offended if in Spain they say we speak Spanish? No. If I was an immigrant there, no.
All Italians speak Spanish without studying.
This happens to a lot of kids from different backgrounds – they lose a lot of their parents’ and grandparents’ teachings, language and culture because they have to deal with another language and culture 24/7. By the time I was 44, I was terrible at Spanish. I was always intimidated whenever I had to speak it.
The sitting prime minister, Jose Aznar, who had strongly backed the U.S.-led Iraq War, was unseated by a challenger who then pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq. The Madrid terrorist attacks are generally regarded as being the key to why Aznar, who had been leading in the polls, was defeated.
In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.
I love the Spanish language.
The way I think or sing about something is very different if it is in Spanish or English.
Whenever I’m around Spanish people, I’m kind of like a fly on the wall.
Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that’s especially tasty with clams.
The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the assimilation of Hispanics into American society.
I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.
I’ve studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I’ll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.
