Bob Cousy Quotes

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

I studied in American school, so yes, I grew up speaking English and Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is my first language.

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

I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

Spanish is my first language.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

English is not my first language.

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

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian.

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get fluent. I think it'd be tragic to go through life only knowing one language.

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

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.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

I grew up speaking Spanish. The woman who helped raise me was only Spanish-speaking, so it was one of my primary languages as a kid. And I lived in Spain for a while.

English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.

Fluency in even one other language would be fantastic.

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

Hindi has never been a trouble. In fact, Hindi is the only language I can speak and write apart from Malayalam and English.

I wish I knew more languages.

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.

I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until I started school.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.