Aishwarya Rajesh Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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 have done films in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada. I don't find any difference.

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.

English is not my first language.

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

I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

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.

In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it.

I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.

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.

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 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 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.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

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