Raj Thackeray Quotes

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

They say that immigrants don’t speak English. So? Who cares. Even the Irish learned English after a while.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.

I think I've started to dream in American a little bit.

When I went to school, I didn't know a lick of English, but it was okay because there were so many immigrants in the area, a lot of the kids didn't speak a lick of English, either. It was normal to have a wicked accent.

Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit in class for months without speaking the language, but as I got older, I welcomed the possibility of discovering new cultures and languages.

The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.

As a woman of colour, as a person who is a minority, I believe its important that other people know about my language and I don't necessarily have to explain. In the same way, when I read 19th-century literature and if I have to understand a Latin phrase or a French phrase, it is incumbent upon me to learn it.

Each language is a different lens from through which you view the world. So, learn as much as you can!

The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.

I think when you move to a country like the U.S., you need to understand the culture, to understand how people see the game, and adapt yourself.

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

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

My whole life, I've been getting used to adapting. There are small differences, but culturally, the States and the U.K. are very close.

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

Beveren helped me a lot to adjust to Europe.

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

Breaking down barriers, succeeding away from home, living in another country, another culture, different football, makes you much stronger.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.