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My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

— Wilbur Smith

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I am my father's daughter: I have his language, his expressions.

— Dinah Manoff

It was deeply interesting to observe my mother closely and to draw her. During those last months, she wasn't speaking much, if at all, and it was a way for me to be with her. It felt very natural.

— Roz Chast

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

— Esha Gupta

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.

— David Archuleta

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.

— Miyavi

My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

— John Mayer

✗Opposing Perspectives

I speak English with my dad and Swedish with my mom; it's quite schizophrenic.

— Joel Kinnaman

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.

— Lou Doillon

My mother, Yolanda, was a little girl who never grew up, and sometimes we would laugh, and I would say things like, 'Okay, so now it looks like I am your mother and you are my daughter,' to which she would reply, 'Well, yes. Handle it and pamper me.'

— Thalia