When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader knows Urdu well.
I am more comfortable with Tamil than Hindi.
The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.
My mother is a Telugu, so I have been familiar with the language since childhood.
It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity with the language. And to have that, one must respect it.
As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.
It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
I can speak Tamil fluently, and the sentence structures in Telugu are quite similar.
Hispanics speak Spanish or Portuguese, which are languages we Americans are familiar with, so it doesn't seem to pose the same types of problems as Arabic-speaking Muslims do in Europe.
I know Hindi.
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.
It is always something special when you can talk with people from your country. It is always nice to hear advice in your own language.
I am born and brought up in Maharashtra so for me, Marathi is an often heard language.
I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
I really love Anglo music, and the language as well. Like, my kids, they - born here, Miami. So I just - a little bit more familiar with the language.
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.
I know Sanskrit, which has similarities with Tamil, so it helps me understand the language.
I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
