I was very adept at acquiring languages.
It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it’s just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences by trying to reflect back to them the genius of their own cultures, and to do that, oftentimes, in new jazz settings, new arrangements. It’s a way to show respect.
I love dabbling in various genres and languages.
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
I’m in awe of people who speak other languages not just fluently but near-native. I speak French, Spanish and Portuguese and I’m pretty good, but I’d love to understand all the nuances.
It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.
Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you’re likely to get it wrong.
I speak four languages and read a great deal, so I do as much working out on the brain as I do on the body.
I’m a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.
I speak three languages. I’m pretty handsome myself.
I’m studying Finnish, and it’s one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more I realize that’s definitely true.
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
It is everyone’s story. We are ashamed of our native language, be it Punjabi or Urdu. If you make mistakes while speaking your native languages, no one will say anything. But if you say one word incorrect in English, people will treat it like a crime.
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.
I’ve been offered bi-linguals and tri-linguals to be made in Hindi and south languages.
My college roommate gave me her copy of ‘Lord of the Rings,’ and I read that probably five or six times – not because I think it’s the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is – but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.
When I have to switch back and forth, it’s not hard to go from the American accent to speaking Spanish, but then speaking Spanish and going back into the American accent is hard. I practice it so much. I talk to myself in the mirror all the time. It’s like speaking multiple languages.
I have a good ear for languages.
There’s nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what’s going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened in the past. We’re seeing languages dying out on a massive scale.
With .NET once an API is published it’s available to all programming languages at the same time.
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 have acted in nine regional languages and now I am ready to do a Bangla film.
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.
So many of our love languages are based on how our parents loved us or didn’t love us. What our parents gave us either has become our priority or what they didn’t give us has become our priority.
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
An American customer can book in English all over the world, but also, somebody from Japan or China can book in their own language everywhere. We translate all of our content into these languages, and that’s quite unique. We service our direct customers – the innkeepers – as well in their own language.
India did not innovate with the ATMs. But when we brought ATMs into India and made the machines talk in 15 regional languages to the people in rural India, we got millions of transactions on the ATM.
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
I speak three other languages – Serbian, French, and Italian – but typically read in English.
I’m German! Actually, I love my countr, ;I love the language. The German language is very special because it is so precise. There is a word for everything. There are so many wonderful words that other languages don’t have. It is impressive to have such a rich language, and I love to work in that language.
I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, ‘The Birds’ – it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.
It’s very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
I have always wondered why I don’t get as many good roles in Malayalam as I do in other languages.
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
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.
Our schools face immense pressures caused by the different needs and languages of children from immigrant families, particularly in urban areas.
My sister and brother and I grew up speaking both languages – French to our father and English to our mother. But when we three kids are talking to each other, we use English.
I have done 33 films in one year, for which I hold a Guinness Book World record. Plus I’ve done songs for all languages from Hindi to Malayalam, Punjabi to Telugu, and Kannada to Oriya.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.
I’ve got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin’s not easy.
CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news – let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.
If you do not know each player individually, one on one, it is impossible to form a team from 22 distinct personalities, different languages, different home countries, but with one common aim.
Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
I decided to remake ‘Sairat’ and contacted Nitin Keni of Zee Studios with a plan to remake the movie in all south Indian languages.
A degree of lying – you know, white lies – seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don’t even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also get to decide if we’re going to let guilt bring us down or not. Acknowledge the feelings, and then give yourself permission to let them go.
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.
It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That’s always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.
I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 – well, that would have been 1970 – into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
Every place in the world where there are two peoples – two religions, two languages – there is friction and conflict.
I don’t really own anything. It makes me more fluent, er, fluid. More fluent, too, because I’ve learned a lot of languages by traveling around.
