Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.
Sadly - and I think this is why it's so important that we do this more - I don't have that guiding light. You know, "Oh, that Sleepless in Seattle bilingual something," like, it doesn't exist. I don't have it in my memory, and that's why I thought it was important to make it.
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.
Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.
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.
That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.
I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was born and raised in the U. S. That really gave me an edge. I understand that, from the experts, if you grew up bilingual, your brain kind of gets wired to accept a new language. It was a very serious deal because not only did I have to learn Russian to a high degree in order to function as a necessary member of the crew, but also I knew that the Russians that came over that made an effort and had some success in learning English, those were the folks we trusted.
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.
Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. . .
I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
When I'm writing poetry, 99. 9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.
