Parvathy Quotes

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

I would like to be a polyglot.

I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

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

I am an actor and I don't have any language barrier. If I get a Tamil film, I will learn the language. It's not a problem.

In fact, I learnt Hindi over a period of time after I started doing TV shows.

I'm happy to work in Malayalam.

I am comfortable with all four South Indian languages.

As I grew, I began learning and speaking a word or two in Bengali and that increased my friends circle.

Being a Malayali, I had to learn Punjabi and Haryanvi to be able to jump into the music scene.

I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was born and raised in the U.S. That really gave me an edge. I understand that, from the experts, if you grew up bilingual, your brain kind of gets wired to accept a new language. It was a very serious deal because not only did I have to learn Russian to a high degree in order to function as a necessary member of the crew, but also I knew that the Russians that came over that made an effort and had some success in learning English, those were the folks we trusted.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

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

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four 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.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

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

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.