Grandparents Quote by Laufey

I speak Cantonese, and I speak Tagalog.

— Reggie Lee

My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents living in…

— KT Tunstall

There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin.

— Jia Zhangke

I use Mandarin, Korean and English on a daily basis and usually only use Cantonese when I'm speaking with my relatives. I don't think…

— Henry Lau

I always count in Cantonese because that's my first language.

— Jackson Wang

Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that…

— James Wan

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects…

— David Tang

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and…

— Katie Leung

Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan.

— Lisa Joy

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

— Rupert Murdoch

I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because I'm Belgian,…

— Eline Powell

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

— Esha Gupta