Bit Quote by Mathias Rust

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

— Rachel Riley

I managed to do some classes in Ukraine but people there didn't really speak English. They spoke Russian so that's what I learned there.

— Fred

My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.

— Lulu Wang

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

— George Gamow

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish…

— Cheech Marin

My mother and I were alike in one crucial respect: We may have been Russian by birth, but we were English in spirit. She…

— Max Boot

I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me -…

— Irina Shayk

Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with…

— Carine Roitfeld

I learned my English from Keith Spurgeon. He had some small children, and I was young, too, and so we spoke the language together,…

— Johan Cruyff

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

— Ian Frazier

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really…

— Clive James

I really love learning new languages and new cultures; I've also learned Russian for a role.

— Shira Haas