Abhimanyu Singh Quotes

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

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

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

I grew up with a grandmother from another country and having a different language in my house. That gave me an ear for accents.

I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

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

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

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

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities.

Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.