Our own household is even more multi-lingual, as we live on the Dutch-German border. I live in the Netherlands but I work in Germany; I am English and my wife Chinese, and all four languages are in daily use.
我是英國人、內子是中國人；我們住在荷蘭，而我在德國工作。日常生活中，我們通用四種語言，因此我對文章中的描述深有同感。