I speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
(Charles V Haps.)
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
(Mark Twain)
It seems Spanish to me
(German idiom in context of an unsettling situation)
(Tiān bù pà, dì bù pà, zhǐ pà Guǎngdōng rén shuō Pŭtōnghuà)
I fear neither heaven nor earth, I only fear Cantonese speakers trying to speak Mandarin.
(Tìn m̀ gìng, deih m̀ gìng, jí gìng bākfòng yàhn góng Gwóngdùngwá m̀jeng)
I fear neither heaven nor earth, I only fear Mandarin speakers speaking Cantonese badly.
A man who speaks three language is trilingual.
A man who speaks two languages is bilingual.
A man who speaks only one language is English.
(Claude Gagniè)