REFLECTIONS ON LANGUAGE

I recently read an interview in which Spanish actor Javier Bardem discussed the difficulty of expressing himself on screen in his second language English. He likened it to someone running around an office desperately asking for vital files thrown at him in haste by co-workers.He noted that when you speak in your first language, words have an emotional resonance in you since you are speaking out of a need to express yourself, so it comes easily. I liked the office analogy a lot.