Harshvardhan Rane Quotes

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

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.

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

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

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

The Malayalam connection has always been there and finally I am trying to learn the language to be active here as well.

The fact that I did a Tamil film is going to help me a lot in learning Telugu.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

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

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

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.

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 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.

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.

I don't know Arabic. I can't speak or write it.

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.

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.

All the kids are learning different languages. I asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is a Cambodian language; Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.

I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

English is not my language.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.