Princess Eugenie of York Quotes

It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa - that's the story of my life!

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

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

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.

French was my first language.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

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 spoke Franglais growing up.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

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.

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.

In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.

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