Thalia Quotes

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

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

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

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.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

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

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

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

The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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.

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

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

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

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

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

The way the educational system in Russia works is studying a foreign language is part of the program, so by the time you get to the age of 10, you pick up another language. I speak a bit of Russian, a bit of English, a bit of Spanish a bit of French.

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

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.