Quotes about spanish-speaking (16 Quotes)


    Buying a home is one of the most significant decisions a family can make, and the process can be daunting, especially for first-time homebuyers. That's why it's so important for homebuyers to be fully informed and to understand their rights and responsibilities. We are proud to give lenders the tools they need to educate their Spanish-speaking customers on the process and to help ensure that their customers feel more confident about the process.


    I think Spanish media will continue to increase because of the large Spanish-speaking population in our country. It's a smart thing to do in the business world today.


    For a lot of them, they feel as if there're so many Spanish-speaking people to begin with. They would like to reach out to these individuals and communicate in a different way.



    It's always been a part of the Canby community. For years we've had bilingual customer service representatives. One of the things you have to pay attention to is where they're from. Spanish-speaking countries have very different tastes.

    Often our non-native Spanish-speaking listeners are nervous about being on the air, worried that they might make a mistake. But we receive plenty of e-mails from English-speaking soccer fans who listen to us regularly.

    We have a significant number of Spanish-speaking people in this community they do jobs that Americans won't do. It is an interesting thing, what's going on in this country.

    I see this opportunity as a way to connect to the Spanish-speaking audience in a different and more profound way than I've been able to do in the past. I want to tell the stories of Latinos who grow up here and live the American Dream.

    Most of our students are Spanish-speaking, but regardless of their backgrounds, it's extremely gratifying to help someone learn to speak, read and write English so they can advance in their jobs and be able to talk to their children's teachers and become productive members of our community.

    A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay. Not just because of us, but because the entire Spanish-speaking community is occupying all types of social positions-from congressmen all the way down to the people who take out the garbage cans.


    It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was. It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.

    But when the infectious beat of reggaetn, which is derived from Jamaican dancehall and other Afro-Caribbean beats, became popular on the Spanish-speaking island, many local rappers abandoned standard hip-hop breakbeats. Latinos are children of la rumba, ... When people play drums it gets our attention right away. When we saw that, we realized there wasn't so much interest in hip-hop here anymore. We started to incorporate the ideas we had doing hip-hop with the base of dancehall and reggae en Espaol.

    Within the agency, I've always been treated fairly, ... I stood out because I was the only bilingual Hispanic, I believe, for about the first 13 years in the sheriff's office in my career. I ended up getting all the high-profile felony cases -- homicides, shootings, robberies -- involving Spanish-speaking individuals. So it accelerated my training, but it put a heavy workload on me.



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