Raashi Khanna Quotes

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

I have worked in Telugu films. I found Bengali easier and sweeter than Telugu.

I've never learned to speak a foreign language with ease.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

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

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.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

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.

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

There are many Bollywood actresses who work in the South and speak Tamil or Malayalam, and though it is correct, we find it funny sometimes.

I'm not exactly an example of how to learn English; I just can't get it into my head. I'm learning hardly anything, truth be told.

It took me a while to grasp Kannada and Telugu.

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

I can't learn Swedish to save my life. I tried, but I'm not very good at it.

It is a conscious decision that I do films in different languages.

When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.