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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.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times!

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

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.

You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality.