Jessica Alba Quotes

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

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

I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.

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

I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.

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

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

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

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.

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.

Bilingualism is a great asset for any individual, but it has perilous consequences for a nation.

I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

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.

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

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

I talk bilingual.

It is a privilege that women fancy me, but I cannot sustain the chocolate boy image forever. I don't want to end up being known, like the late veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan was, as the king of romance.

I can speak English, Portuguese, and a bit of Spanish, or Sportugal. It's a mix of Portuguese and Spanish. I understand French and Italian, but I can't speak them.

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.

I don't speak but understand Gujarati.

I have done films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. I don't find any difference.

I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish.

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.