Local Language Quotes

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

I am a Mumbaichi mulgi.

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.

I am quite fluent in Odiya. I understand the people of Odisha, and they understand me.

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local language.

I am born and brought up in Kota, Rajasthan.

Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.

In English films, they concentrate more on background scores and the music will be the main highlight of movie. When it comes to our local language, we have comedy, emotion, hero buildups, etc., and the music for each will be different from the other.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.

Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.

When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.

I am born and brought up in Maharashtra so for me, Marathi is an often heard language.

However hard you might try, you can never understand a market like a local person would.

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.