I grew up speaking Arabic at home.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

— John Walker Lindh

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

— Jon Secada

I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just…

— Cristian Machado

When you're speaking Spanish, you're thinking in a different way.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.

— Ben Miller

I prefer speaking Croatian when I train.

— Bernard Tomic

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

— Ibn Khaldun

“By the affirmation of all scholars, Arabic is the most honourable language among all Semitic ones.”

— Clemens Joseph David

It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute,…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“In its classical form Arabic is of later date than Hebrew, but in its ancient form akin to Hebrew and Aramaic, certainly as old,…

— James John Courtenay

World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no…

— Yasmine Hamdan

“The Arabic language has had a great history, and in many respects is more remarkable than any other Semitic speech.”

— James John Courtenay

We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my…

— Shereen El Feki

“Yet even when such languages did not face direct official sanction, speakers of older tongues knew that they had little chance of getting on…

— Philip Jenkins