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I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

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 am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

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.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.

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.