• Question: What languages do you speak?

    Asked by monald mcronald to Krishnaa on 13 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by ThankYou.
    • Photo: Krishnaa Mahbubani

      Krishnaa Mahbubani answered on 13 Jun 2016:


      Hey dustbinman and icecreamman – are you both related??
      Let’s see – I think the answer is 3 and a half.
      I speak English – as demonstrated here. Having grown up in Hong Kong, I speak Cantonese (one of the many chinese dialects that exist). This makes 2.
      I also speak two Indian dialects but not particularly well (Hindi and Sindhi) and was forced to learn French at school for 5 years. As I only have parital ability in these three languages, they should only count as half a language, bringing us up to a grand total of 3.5.

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