Nathan Chen Quotes

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

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

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

My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

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 both languages, and for me that's really important.

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

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

I have a funny accent in every language.

A lot of people who live in Denmark will understand Danish but not necessarily speak it.

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

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

I speak fluent Kosovan.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I can read and write in Hindi.

I talk bilingual.

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the household, he entertained this idea that we had to speak both languages.

I don't speak but understand Gujarati.

I'm half Telugu. My mom is Telugu and dad, a Maharashtrian. I was brought up in Gwalior. I was exposed to English, Hindi, and Marathi. I heard my mom speak to her family in Telugu, so I got the hang of it.

My dad's French, and I spent my summers in France growing up. So I speak French fluently, and obviously, I speak English because I was raised in New York, and I grew up here.

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

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 Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

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.