Aravind Adiga Quotes

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

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.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

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

I would like to speak 10 languages.

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

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.

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

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

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

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

My grandfather spoke fluent Spanish and I have family members who speak fluent Spanish.

I talk bilingual.