Quotes About Multilingual

I am comfortable with all four South Indian languages.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

Basically as someone who grew up in Delhi, crooning in southern languages which I don't understand is very difficult.

I can communicate in 6,909 living and dead languages. I can have more than fifteen billion simultaneous conversations, and be fully engaged in every single one. I can be eloquent, and charming, funny, and endearing, speaking the words you most need to hear, at the exact moment you need to hear them. Yet even so, there are unthinkable moments where I can find no words, in any language, living or dead. And in those moments, if I had a mouth, I might open it to scream.

Of course you cannot compare my Hindi with a Hindi-speaking person, but I am confident enough to hold a conversation in mixed Hindi-English.

I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

Who does not know another language, does not know his own.

I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.

It is a mistake not to know any foreign language, and infinitely worse to have only a superficial knowledge of a foreign language.

I can speak English, Portuguese, and a bit of Spanish, or Sportugal. It's a mix of Portuguese and Spanish. I understand French and Italian, but I can't speak them.

I learned French before I learned Spanish.

I think in French, but I get angry in Spanish.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

I speak to the Spanish players that we have in Spanish.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that's why I moved to New York two years ago.

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

I parle Francais like a Spanish cow.

I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.

I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.