I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.
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My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.
All my mom's side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they're patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them.
I want to be open to the kids who only speak Spanish, the kids who speak only Spanglish, and the kids who don't even speak Spanish at all.
My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.
When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.
My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it.
Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.