Upamanyu Chatterjee Quotes

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

I do speak a bit of Bengali.

I wish I knew more languages.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

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.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

I had to know at least two languages.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

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.

I don't speak English or French, but that doesn't mean anything.

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

When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.