Ronny Chieng Quotes

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.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

I have a funny accent in every language.

I want my words to survive translation.

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

I'm against the idea of force-feeding all of Canada on two languages.

Languages are the pedigrees of nations.

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

The idea of Homo monolinguis - one-languaged man - the idea of children having to grow into one system before we confuse them with another mental system, is an idea with which, unfortunately, many people are brought up now.

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

English is the medium of communication for people all over India.

If my mom came to the sets, we would speak to her in Tulu, and no one would understand. That's an advantage when you know any South Indian language.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

I felt very motivated to release some things in English because I wanna represent my community.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

I haven't even grown up on Hindi films because my Hindi is bad; I am a Parsi and we speak English or Gujarati at home.

Should people working in our country speak English? Yes, they should.

Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.

I have sung in all languages, and so every people know me - Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.