Shreya Ghoshal Quotes

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

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.

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

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.

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

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

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

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.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

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

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world.

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.

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

My grandfather spoke fluent Spanish and I have family members who speak fluent Spanish.

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.

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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

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