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Quotes About Bilingual

I spoke in Tamil at home and ate dosa and idli.
~ Vidya Vox
It was very difficult to leave Argentina when I was kid, so I only spoke Spanish for the first six years of my life.
~ Anya Taylor-Joy
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.
~ Helen Vendler
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.
~ James Wan
My father is from Brooklyn, but we spoke Dutch at home.
~ Sergino Dest
My grandparents were born in England but spoke German and had a German name.
~ Rick Stein
Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.
~ Rose Leslie
Eres, o te llamas Eragon? -Las dos.
~ Christopher Paolini
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
~ Gordie Howe
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
~ Gordie Howe
Well, we're a Hindi speaking Marwari family, but everybody in my family understands Telugu and talk Telugu films all the time.
~ Nidhhi Agerwal
I was born in New York City speaking French at home.
~ Suleika Jaouad
Cinco hundred dollars. No habla español
~ James Patterson
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.
~ Ernest Istook
My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
~ Odette Annable
Translators need a lot of skills besides fluency in at least two languages; translators need to be excellent writers in their native language and need to be interested in and skilled at terminology research using both paper dictionaries and the Internet.
~ Corinne McKay
American professional athletes are bilingual — they speak English and profanity.
~ Gordie Howe, 1975
I've noticed you only speak ghetto half of the time. - Stephanie I'm multi-lingual, Rancher said. I followed him to the door, feeling jealous, wishing I knew a second language.
~ Janet Evanovich
I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.
~ Michael Portillo
Most educated Indians are bilingual. Amongst the urban elite though, there is a disdain for regional languages. That's unfortunate.
~ Amish Tripathi
I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.
~ Esha Gupta
My Hindi is OK. I think I am better with Tamil. I remember the Tamil words.
~ Amy Jackson
I grew up speaking Arabic at home.
~ Mena Massoud