Jinder Mahal Quotes

Neither of my parents had English as a first language.

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

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.

One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

My biggest regret is that I didn't teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

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

Since I grew up in Palakkad, I am comfortable speaking both Tamil and Malayalam.

If I could talk in only one language for the rest of my life, it'd be Tamil.

I use Mandarin, Korean and English on a daily basis and usually only use Cantonese when I'm speaking with my relatives. I don't think it's very difficult for me to switch between each language because I've been doing it for so long.

My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.

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've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way.

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

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

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

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.

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.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.