Raghuram Rajan Quotes

I think the biggest difficulty is that when I'm here in America, there's a necessity of using English, so I really have a great sense of really wanting to learn, but unfortunately when I head back to Japan, the necessity vanishes and so does my enthusiasm about learning.

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

When I first came to this country I could not speak English. Now I get paid to write it.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.

I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English, and they realize how far I have been able to go.

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.

When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were 'Hello' and 'Shut up.'

Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

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.