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In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.

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 speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

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

We've got so many different cultural groups in my family that I've had to learn to accommodate them in different ways. My father speaks different to my mum. My mum speaks different to my grandmother. Everybody speaks different, so you find you start tweaking your language to be more accessible to people.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months.