Ananya Birla Quotes

English is my first language, but musically speaking, I write my music in Spanish.

Marathi is my mother tongue; there's a certain comfort level speaking in it.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

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.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

I'm rarely singing in English.

I really love Anglo music, and the language as well. Like, my kids, they - born here, Miami. So I just - a little bit more familiar with the language.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

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

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

I realized over the years if I'm writing about humor, irony, satire, I much prefer to do that in English. And if there is sorrow, melancholy, longing, I much prefer to do that in Turkish. Each language has its own strength to me, and I feel connected and attached to both Turkish and English. I dream in more than one language.

I felt like, I need to do English music; I speak better English than I do Korean. I think the fans enjoy it as well, so let's start making music in English.

I'd like to pursue music back home because I still tend to express myself better through my mother language - English - and it's something I've been dreaming about and would like to achieve.

I'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere.

My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.

I am more comfortable with Tamil than Hindi.

I'm French, and no one really knows that unless I tell them. So, I can speak French; that's my secret talent.

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

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

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

Basically as someone who grew up in Delhi, crooning in southern languages which I don't understand is very difficult.