Quotes About Multilingual

I was so glad that I was able to use my skills of speaking Chinese in a film where the character is Chinese, because sometimes you actually don't get to do that. Especially in Hollywood blockbusters today because they want everyone around the world to understand what is happening, so they usually want you to speak English.

My career is doing well both in Tollywood as well as Bollywood.

I'm interested to branch out to Tamil because I know the language. If Bollywood happens, it will be a bonus, but I'm not working towards a career in it.

In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

I love and respect all languages of India. I have sung songs in different languages.

Bollywood is just one of the industries I am working in. I have sung in other languages and for ad jingles too.

I have sung 14,000 songs in 22 languages.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I have sung songs in many Indian language be it Kannad, Tamil, Telgu, Marathi, Bhojpuri or Hindi and worked with all the good music directors.

To expand our minds and to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure and a resource for thinking new thoughts.

They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.

It's like my career is divided in phases. There comes a phase when I only do Tollywood movies, back to back, and then there is a phase when I do only Hindi films.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.

I have never been someone who chooses a film according to the language. Since I am comfortable with Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam, the scope of the film is all that matters to me.

Tossing the chalk thoughtfully for a moment, I decided what to do. I wrote 'The cat sat on the mat' once in copperplate English, then translated into Latin, then French and finally, for good measure, in Italian.

I remember being called a pig. You do? You know good and well, I do. I was called a pig in two languages. You were? I was.

I suppose you heard him yelling as the doctor set his leg. I never knew there were so many rude words in the English language. Or French, German, Italian, Latin,or....there was another language I didn't quite recognize. Greek.

Vanuatu has over 100 languages in use among the 230,000 population. I don't know how a place can run like this. Surely a lot of people have to speak a certain language for it to qualify as one.

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.

The two men spoke in German, although von Hessen, who had spent years living in Italy, could also speak Italian

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.