Native Language Quotes

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Since I am originally from Hyderabad, I speak Telugu fluently.

The fact is I do feel very Spanish, like when I'm talking to my wife and daughter in Spanish at two in the afternoon. I even think in Spanish when I get angry!

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.

I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school.

French was my first language.

Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French.

Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you can do it in your own language.

My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.

I am more comfortable with Tamil than Hindi.

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

My first language is Gaelic.

Spanish is actually my first language, growing up, and I understand the culture. I understand the culture; I understand what the people want.

Living freely means being able to freely communicate in your native language and to be guided by the 10th article of the constitution, which defines Ukrainian as the only state language and guarantees the unhindered development of Russian and all the other languages.

The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.