Tanushree Dutta Quotes

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 study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

I could never learn to be totally fluent in any other language.

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

It took me a while to grasp Kannada and Telugu.

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

When I came to Korea for the first time, I couldn't understand the language.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

English is not my first language.

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

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

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

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.

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

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 think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

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.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.