Kriti Kharbanda Quotes

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

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

I would like to speak 10 languages.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

The fact that I didn't speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.

I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.

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

I don't speak any other languages, which I'm kind of ashamed about, actually.

Initially, picking up the Dravadian language was a bit tough act.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

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

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

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

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.

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