Javed Ali Quotes

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

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

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

I have been singing since childhood and, over the years, sang songs from different languages from India and across the globe.

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

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

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.

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

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

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

I like playing with languages and dialects as we have so many in India. Adding a dialect just makes the dialogues more colorful.

I speak Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, and English.

Besides Hindi and English, I can speak in Maithli, my native language, and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi.

I have sung some songs in Telugu and Malayalam. And I want to sing in Tamil, too.

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

I have sung in over 20 different languages and enjoyed it. I have even sung in foreign languages like Spanish and Russian.

I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.

I have sung in all languages, and so every people know me - Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu.