Around Quote by Hong Chau

I grew up speaking Vietnamese - that was my first language because my parents didn't speak any English, and I didn't learn English until…

— Hong Chau

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a…

— Hong Chau

We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the…

— Eric Ripert

I speak Vietnamese and conversational Spanish.

— Jeannie Mai

I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to…

— Andrew Lam

I've lived a lot with people who speak different languages.

— Alice Rohrwacher

You have to wear a different face when you're interacting with the larger culture. And you can be more of yourself at home or…

— Nguyen Viet Thang

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in…

— Ted Cruz

I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came…

— Tammy Duckworth

And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

— Dat Phan

One of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I…

— Anjelah Johnson

My parents always wanted me to learn about my culture and tried to make me eat Vietnamese food.

— Lana Condor