I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.

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

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

Mother language at home, regional language in State, national language in Country, medium language at school, 2nd language at school, professional language at work, language for girl friend, language for travel and like on the need of learning multiple language is ever growing. - Devaski

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.