Steiner grew up with three mother tongues: German, English, and French; his mother was multilingual and would often "begin a sentence in one language and end it in another".
斯坦纳长大的时候有三种母语：德语、英语和法语；他的母亲是多语言的，经常「用一种语言开始一个句子，然后用另一种语言结束。