Shruti Haasan Quotes

I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

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

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

Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.

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.

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 use Mandarin, Korean and English on a daily basis and usually only use Cantonese when I'm speaking with my relatives. I don't think it's very difficult for me to switch between each language because I've been doing it for so long.

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

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

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.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

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

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

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

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.