Sowcar Janaki Quotes

I just can't stop doing Telugu films just when I have started speaking a little better Telugu.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

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

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

As an actor, your whole body needs to be expressive, and unless you know the language, your expressions will not match the character you are playing. So, I am learning Tamil to the fullest.

My Mandarin is slowly getting worse.

I think English is very important for tennis players. To be on the tour, it's much more easier if you speak English. So that's why I knew that I have to improve my English.

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

I was born and brought up in London, so I couldn't speak Hindi properly. But as I am socialising more with my Hindi speaking friends, I'm getting better at the language.

It took me just a couple of months to pick up Telugu.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence.

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, just not particularly well.

I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.