Robert De Niro Says He Hopes to Teach 8-Month-Old Daughter Gia to Speak Both Chinese and English

The actor welcomed his daughter Gia with Tiffany Chen in April

Robert De Niro is opening up about his role as a dad.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the Killers of the Flower Moon actor, 80, shared that he is hoping to teach his 8-month-old daughter Gia both English and Chinese. De Niro shares his daughter with Tiffany Chen.

"[She is] half-Chinese. I want to try to teach her Chinese and show her nursery rhymes in English and Chinese," the actor said. "I'm trying to have her learn both."

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Related: Robert De Niro Admits He Doesn't 'Do the Heavy Lifting' Raising Baby with Tiffany Chen: 'She Does the Work'

In addition to daughter Gia, De Niro is dad to six other kids, including daughter Drena, 52, and son Raphael, 47, whom he shares with his ex-wife Diahnne Abbott; twin sons Julian and Aaron, 28, with his former girlfriend, model and actress Toukie Smith; and son Elliot, 25, and daughter Helen Grace, 11, with his ex-wife, Grace Hightower.

De Niro opened up about life with his new little one in October, telling The Guardian it's "going okay."

“It doesn’t get easier,” he admitted of parenting. “It is what it is. It’s okay. I mean, I don’t do the heavy lifting. I’m there, I support my girlfriend. But she does the work. And we have help, which is so important.”

Asked if the Silver Linings Playbook star enjoys fatherhood, he replied, "Of course I do," adding he enjoys "all of it."

"With a baby it’s different [than] with my 11-year-old. My adult children. My grandchildren. It’s all different," he continued.

During an appearance on Today in June 2023, De Niro was asked about being a dad to a newborn, to which he replied, "It feels great."

He continued about his parenting evolution, "I have certain awareness — when you’re older you have awareness of certain things in life, dynamics, everything, family dynamics. You can’t avoid learning certain things and how you can deal with those and manage them and this and that, the usual. It's amazing, but I'm very happy about it."

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