Salman Rushdie Quotes

Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I have a good ear for languages.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

I have a weird obsession with people who can speak multiple languages. I'd love to be able to do that.

I've been working in three-four languages. I'm happy to do it.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned my ABCs, they taught us our Aleph-Bet at the same time.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

I think the best part of learning a language is that you can see the country's culture through the language. And it gives you different levels of understanding of that culture when you really try to dig in and learn it.

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

I talk bilingual.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

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.