Madhura Naik Quotes

I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my Hindi speaking friends, I'm getting better at the language.

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.

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

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

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

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

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

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

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

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 feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Prior to 'Snowpiercer,' I've done many other international project that forced me to be in an environment where I had to converse in English.

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 just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

I would like to be a polyglot.

I have a one-question language test that people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom. Try my test yourself: In a foreign language you've studied, how do you say 'doorknob'?

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

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

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

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.