Trevor Noah Quotes

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

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 speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

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

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

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

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

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

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

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

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.

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

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.

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

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

I work, play and do everything in French.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.

French was my first language.

I think it keeps your brain moving faster, singing in another language.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.