His wife is French, his children speak the language and the family has a house in Paris.
Four out of five second-generation immigrant children speak English fluently, but the same proportion are also fluent in Spanish.
Two things to finish: Carwyn Jones' children may not thank him but you suspect Mr Jones the Dad will have reached parts of the debate Mr Jones the First Minister could not have by revealing his own children speak Welsh in school - and to him - but never socially, outside school or to their friends.
We must empower children to speak up and then be sure that their voices are heard.
School-age children who speak a language other than English at home are one of the fastest-growing populations.
That will supposedly be done over the next four years, during which time the researchers will work with language development specialists who normally study how parents teach children to speak.
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After raising two young children who speak French, Greek and English, and learning to speak Greek herself, she says she has never in her 12 years in the city felt unwelcome in Athens.
So the city's education department is struggling to persuade the government that it still, 20 years after the main wave of immigration, needs extra money to pay for teaching children who speak little English.
On any given Saturday morning my daughter plays with children whose parents speak all different languages to their children including Japanese, French, Italian, Russian and, of course, English.
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Children whose mothers speak little or no English start their education at a disadvantage.
But the melting pot is still bubbling: adult immigrants work, and their children virtually all speak English.
Small towns across the country are now encountering casual labourers hanging out on street corners and school children who cannot speak English.
Every year California's schools cope with fewer children who cannot speak English.
The children refused to speak, and in the end, all he could get out of them, even though he offered them money, was a recitation of the alphabet.
These children are still in touch with their parents - as the report says about a quarter of older people speak to their children every day.
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Without such tools, children and parents who speak one language and teachers who speak another have no chance.
Sensory integration therapy advocates say the widely used program's constant stimulation helps children with autism learn to speak.
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He would not speak to us children of his experiences, except to say the Germans put salt in the water.
West Albany High School's principal, Susie Orsborn, sent a note to students' parents, asking them to urge their children to come forward and speak with police if they knew anything about the plan.
And let us be honest - tonight too many parents, after they put their children to bed, will speak of their worries about losing their jobs or the need to sell the house too many will share stones of friends or neighbours already packing up their homes, and too many will talk of a local store or business that has already gone to the wall.
Children from around the world will speak out about their lives in a unique set of BBC programmes to mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Many young people are now reared to speak only English, and one teen-age student told me that even adults who once spoke only Tamil, the local language, were beginning to speak Tanglish with their children.
We have to speak for the voice of those six adults who died trying to save the children in their care that day who can't speak for themselves.
The children of Somalis growing up in Birmingham speak Brummie, not some Somali inflected version of English.
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Animals are like children in that they can't speak up for themselves.
And the children were 50% more likely to speak English as an additional language and 35% more likely to have be summer born.
"My job is to stand up and speak out on behalf of children and to do that I use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, " he said.
And he believes the ability to speak more than one language makes children more tolerant and accepting.
Mr Gove acknowledged some young children started school in nappies and unable to speak in full sentences.
The education ministry wants to improve the limited schooling refugee children get, in particular teaching them to speak Thai.
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