Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes

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

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to be able to express yourself fully in a game.

In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with Pierre-Emerick, you had to switch to English, which is the language most players understand.

When people heard my voice, they were shocked that I could speak Hindi.

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

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

I talk bilingual.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.

If you're talking about industry, I've never restricted myself to Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, or Kannada. Whichever the language is, from Swahili to Marathi or Bhojpuri to Bengali, I would be happy to do it.

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

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

This will sound really funny, but I'm so used to shooting in Hindi that shooting in English took a while to get used to.

Translations are very important these days, since an average person can only know 2-3 three languages. We have so many languages in India and poems are being written in as many of them.

While I can't speak Telugu, I do understand the language.