Hazel Keech Quotes

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

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

I pick up languages fast.

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

In fact, I learnt Hindi over a period of time after I started doing TV shows.

If something interesting comes up, I would love to do something in Bangla in future, especially since I can speak Bangali fluently.

It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

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.

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school but have best friends who are French, Australian, English and American; a very weird mix.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

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

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

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.

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.

I'd love to master another language properly.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

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

It's always lovely to know new languages.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.