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I have sung in many languages in my decades long career and Telugu is one of them.
It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.
I have done films in nine languages and am known in as many states.
I have done 200 plus films in other languages.
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
I have dubbed in all the three languages - Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.
Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.
I have been acting for more than 25 years and have worked in all the four Southern languages. But it is in the Kannada films that I got huge recognition and variety of roles.
The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.
I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.
A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.
Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.
Language is not a barrier, specially Hindi. It is the only language I read, write and speak in and so it is far easier than South Indian languages.
I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.
I think that the best part of being an Indian actress is that you can be a part of so many different films in different languages.
I have sung in over 20 different languages and enjoyed it. I have even sung in foreign languages like Spanish and Russian.
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before.
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
Basically as someone who grew up in Delhi, crooning in southern languages which I don't understand is very difficult.
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.
'3 Idiots' was remade in various languages down south, but it wasn't successful anywhere because the magic was created by Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani.
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.
Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
I've been offered bi-linguals and tri-linguals to be made in Hindi and south languages.
In fact, my earliest films were in Tamil and Telugu and since then I have been acting in all languages.
I love and respect all languages of India. I have sung songs in different languages.
I have acted in nine regional languages and now I am ready to do a Bangla film.
But it's the love of audience that encourages you to try out better things each time and I feel elated that I have the opportunity to work across so many languages.
For an actress, the choices are more if one is open to the idea of doing films in different languages.
Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture and history is one.
I have been singing since childhood and, over the years, sang songs from different languages from India and across the globe.
English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
My native place is Belgaum and I understand Kannada and have a flavor for acting in South Indian languages.
I am not very good with languages. So, in spite of working in films in 17 different languages, I only follow my passion to act without getting worked up about the language.
I have acted in all four film industries in the South. I speak all four languages because of my upbringing in various cities.
When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be there on the dais and experience that myself.
My rebellion has always been positive and connected with my work. That's how I've sung in foreign languages and collaborated with international artistes.
When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, 'Has English become a different language as a result of the Internet?' the answer has to be no.
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.
I don't want to work in just any movie for money. I do films in seven languages so I am pretty busy to be out of work.
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.
I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi, my mother tongue.