Who are you and how do you speak English?

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English,…

— Amish Tripathi

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have…

— John Key

For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.

— Zhang Yimou

“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school, a friend…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't speak English when I had my first job in motorsports.

— Guenther Steiner

When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly…

— Edmund White

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French…

— Lauren Willig

I'm bilingual, I speak english and photography

— Nigel McKain

The first question is always, 'We loved him on 'Dancing with the Stars,' we loved him in the Olympics, but can he speak English?'…

— Apolo Ohno

I barely speak English.

— Eric Ripert

I learned how to speak English watching television.

— Azita Ghanizada

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak…

— Angela Ahrendts

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but…

— Francisco Costa

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What…

— Martin Jacques

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

— Kristin Scott Thomas