Sandra Bullock has actually both US and German citizenship. Her mother was German and she lived in Germany in her childhood. She was raised in Nürnberg, and that is also why she speaks with a slight franconian dialect.

@chrisspain

2 ай бұрын

You also get on her good side by organizing the local sausages from Nuernberg. They are not available in the US for some strange reason. You have to smuggle them in. She loves them.

@HIMzone666returns

2 ай бұрын

yeah, her german is so good, because she grew up with it :D

@RKB74

2 ай бұрын

Yes, her pronunciation is very good, but she did make one mistake that makes it clear her native language is English (can also happen to native German speakers who have lived in an English-speaking country for a while). She wanted to say that her speech (ie, the words that she had written to say on the podium) was lying there on the floor, but she actually said "my language is lying on the floor there". But it makes sense if you speak English, because "sprechen" is speak and "Sprache" is the noun form from that verb...but it doesn't mean "speech" in German, as it does in English, but rather "language."

@rosawolke2788

2 ай бұрын

@@RKB74 I thought that was intentional because she wanted to express that she did not speak the language for a very long time. In this case saying "my language is lying on the floor" may be a bit nonstandard but shows that she really knows german

@HIMzone666returns

2 ай бұрын

@@RKB74 but she is native speaker for english and german, a true bilingual, living and growing up in germany for 12 years. so her mistake seems more likely to be the way most of her life after the 12 years in germany she maybe did not speak german much

Kobe was raised in Italy his whole life until high school. His dad played professional there.

@nicoladc89

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, but you can hear he didn't speak Italian for a long time, you know, you can hear he was thinking in English translating in Italian, he had a good vocabulary, a good pronunciation and a good accent, but the construction of sentences is simply not Italian. For example he said "fare ispirazione per loro" but it should be "essere d'ispirazione per gli altri", he said "è molto importante fare le cose che sono più grandi di te stesso" that basically means nothing in Italian etc. this happens because he speak in English, with Italian words, but in English.

@Garrett1240

9 күн бұрын

@@nicoladc89 Why did the Italian girl say his italian was perfect?

@nicoladc89

9 күн бұрын

@@Garrett1240 🤷‍♂

@shalakabooyaka1480

3 күн бұрын

Nah, he lived there from 6 to 13

@Garrett1240

3 күн бұрын

He didn’t live there until high school. He famously attended high school in Philadelphia and was drafted straight out of high school.

Sandra Bullock actually has a German accent. Her mother is German and she grew up in Nuremberg until she was 12 years old. Therefore, she has a slight Franconian accent.

Sandra Bullock is so good that she does the German thing to say "I'm really bad at -Insert language-" and than speak it fluently.

@hnorrstrom

2 ай бұрын

Sounds exactly like how Swedes behave. I would say I don't really know much German but I perfectly understood what she said.

I am surprised Jodie Foster was not there. She speaks perfect French.

@lorenzor2555

24 күн бұрын

She also speaks a surprisingly good and fluent italian

@AMERASIAN12

7 күн бұрын

I was about to type the same thing!

Cha Du-ri was born in Frankfurt and grew up there. So, yes, he is a native speaker. His father Cha Bum-kun played for Eintracht Frankfurt when he was born.

@jyc313

Ай бұрын

His dad was a legend, amazing player.

Awesome group of girls here, kudos! Respectful, funny and no one running over other's mouth and taking a lead role. Very entertaining to watch.

@boboboy8189

2 ай бұрын

They all looks like adult unlike previous one

we should never be ashamed of not necessarily speaking a foreign language perfectly. The most important thing will always be to try, it shows people that you are interested in them. And what could be more gratifying than seeing a face light up when a few words, even awkwardly pronounced, are said. Take care, have fun

@michelebenedosso3899

Ай бұрын

Absolutely! You hit the nail on the head! 👍

i couldn't help but laugh at will speaking swedish, not just because of the delivery but also because of the grammar. He said it as if he was directing the message to one person (DU är så DUKTIG! DU är STARK!) when it's actually directed at a group of people (NI är så DUKTIGA! NI är STARKA!)😂

@RobertClaeson

2 ай бұрын

English used to have different words for you as a group ("you"), and you as an individual ("thou"), but nowadays is just the more formal (and shorter) you for everything. Same with "the" for everything in English whereas there used to be quite a bit more complicated than that.

@hannawilck7571

12 күн бұрын

​@@RobertClaeson Isn't that kind of the point with the comment? Grammar is different in alot of languages, just translating every word doesn't make it right

Knowing 3 of these languages and having listened to the others, their advice for how to learn each one individually at the end is really helpful.

They all use hand gestures - no one notices. An Italian moves a finger - "Ooooooo you're speaking with your hands how cuuuute"...

Sandra Bullock speaks a bit of a Franconian dialect, as she grew up in Nuremberg. And you notice that she doesn't speak German so often, because she uses “Sprache” instead of “Rede”, which both mean “speech”. But the first one refers to language or voice, while the second is a prepared monologue.

The french are so hyper critical of foreigners speaking their language I find. I have never tried Swedish but every time I try to practice with native speakers of italian, Spanish and german they are so forgiving and happy I am learning their language! I am most proficient in French in fact and am criticized most by French speakers.

@pompom8315

Ай бұрын

French people are hyper-critical about everything. Really their national spirit.

@EEmB

Ай бұрын

Swedes are also very forgiving and happy when you try to speak Swedish, but almost all Swedes switch to English if we hear you are trying, cause is the core of Swedish culture not to embarrass anyone, basically all of our behaviors stem from that core value. We don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. So foreginers usually have trouble practicing Swedish as so many Swedes switch over to English right away in consideration. If you want to speak Swedish to a Swede you have to tell them to please speak Swedish back so you can practice, otherwise they will just switch to Eng.

@benjaminhennequart5018

12 күн бұрын

I don't think you should see this as criticism, it is just an observation, that's what was asked of her here. And in general, if a french person corrects you when you practice, don't see it as a critic either, most (I cannot speak for all the french assholes) french people would do that to help you learn the proper french, not to pull you down but just because we know how hard it is and that's also what we would do for children learning.

@puccaland

3 күн бұрын

Some people simply don't have the maturity to be corrected so they can improve and prefer to wallow into their mistakes. In France that's not the case. Children are encouraged from a young age to try and do things properly.

@jobul2444

Күн бұрын

​@@puccalandc'est pour ça qu'en France,on est très mauvais pour apprendre les langues étrangères. Il nous manque beaucoup d'humilité.

Will Ferrell is married to a Swede just like they said in the video and they have a summerhouse in Sweden so he´s here every summer around Midsommar. Also the actress Geena Davis (google her young kids, she was one of the characters in Thelma and Louise) speaks really good Swedish, she was an exchange student here in her young adulthood and was in a relationship with a Swedish guy and almost stayed here if i remember correctly.

@CBDuRietz

22 күн бұрын

Also, when she worked (and was in a relationship) with Renny Harlin, who is from Finland, they used to speak Swedish on set when they didn't want others to know what they were talking about.

Hi as a Norwegian we share a lot of words with Sweden and Denmark. We have a saying Norwegian’s talk more like the Swedes and we write more like the Danes.

@Lampchuanungang

2 ай бұрын

A true and cute saying 🥂🍷

@Everlaughing

19 күн бұрын

It's true. As a non-Norwegian living in Norway, I understand spoken Swedish better than Danish but written Danish better than Swedish.

@Fledermausmann

12 күн бұрын

From what I remember, Bokmaal is something like 95% similar to written Danish. And also that spoken Danish is 95% similar to what a Norwegian would sound like if they had potato stuck in their throat...

@Mosern1977

11 күн бұрын

@@Fledermausmann - well if you take a very drunk Norwegian and a slightly tipsy Dane, they can communicate just fine.

Sandra Bullock has a German mother and spent several years of her childhood in parts of Germany and Austria.

This is so funny. The French woman reacted exactly like Katya and Bob The Drag Queen said the French react.

@anemosoriginal

2 ай бұрын

Hahah yes 😅

So true about speaking with others, because you may know how to say something but if you don’t understand the other party, you may not be able to respond properly. If you don’t speak with others, you may only understand the most proper form of a reply to your phrase, which is hard to find outside of language learning software since most people use colloquialisms , slangs, and shortcuts.

I have to say that the channel choose really charismatic and friendly (alright, it's the name of the channel, but you know) people to appear at the videos, so... Congratulations, World Friends, and thank to all the girls (women) and boys (men) that shows themselves on a video to all people around the world. I really like those interactions. I've saw an iranian girl/woman (something that I never would expect to see/hear) and also a georgian girl/woman. Those were really unexpected interactions and broke a lot of misconceptions (for me, at least). Thank you from Brazil (Brasil), World Friends!

Gwyneth Paltrow lived for a while in Spain 🇪🇸 with a family in the municipality of Talavera de la Reina (province of Toledo), near the Community of Madrid; in fact, I think she has returned to this Spanish town more times.

@sion8

2 ай бұрын

She has, she has said in other interviews that she tries for at least once a year to go back to Spain.

@Lampchuanungang

2 ай бұрын

If she was in city of Tavalera in province of Toledo, to learn Castilian she's was in the right place and in right time cos there is the palcebirth of all Castilian standart idiom til today, Toledan is the father idiom of Castilian, the name of subfamily of Spanish is Toledan. This fact explains many things.....

@anastasianikolaevnaromanoff

2 ай бұрын

There was a gossip that she was a girlfriend of King Felipe VI of Spain (at that time still Prince) 😂 Imagine Queen Gwyneth 😂

@sion8

2 ай бұрын

@@anastasianikolaevnaromanoff Oh, god! That would suck so much! Just like is happening in Norway, I think (definitely Scandinavia), the princess has a wacko husband or boyfriend with similar views as Gwyneth.

Sandra Bullock is German so it's not a bit surprise her German was so good :D

@fsinjin60

23 күн бұрын

Not German but born and raised in Germany.

@Lxst7Cxntury

19 күн бұрын

@@fsinjin60Her mum was german

@Afroskelett

12 күн бұрын

​@@fsinjin60 yes she is German

I still learning german and for me of course is hard , even though i know the basic german , as i know portuguese and spanish i had not some much problems with Italian

@DSP16569

2 ай бұрын

(Simplified) Portugese, spanish, italian and french are romanic languages (Latin influence from roman empire times) the germans dare to fight them and never been occupied from the romans and therefore only a little influence from the romans and different grammar and sentence structure.

Thimothée Chalamet is from France , his name actually is so hard to speak that he even said "it's whatever you like" 😂

@CT-7567R3X

2 ай бұрын

He's american. He has an accent when he speaks french. His father is french.

@alfrredd

2 ай бұрын

I thought for some reason he was frech canadian I don't know why lol

@cameron92jr48

2 ай бұрын

Is American but is father is French he grew up in us and going some time in france for vacation

@empty_akuma6577

2 ай бұрын

@@CT-7567R3XHe has both the American and French citizenship, so I guess he's both, since he also lived in France and America for long periods of time.

@Thunderworks

2 ай бұрын

​@@cameron92jr48He's Franco-American.

More of these please.

Sandra Bullock has a German mother and lived in Germany for the first 12 years. She has a Franconian accent. By the way, Leonardo Dicaprio's mother is also German. Actually, many US actors and singers have German ancestors, but because of German history they prefer not to bring it up. For example Jodie Forster, Taylor Swift,...

@Ometecuhtli

2 ай бұрын

The USA, the country where your heritage goes to die :(

@karstenbursak8083

Ай бұрын

Don't forget Bruce Willis ... who not only had a german mother but also was born there. Or others where born in Germany bc the parents did military service ... like Martin Lawrence or Reggie Watts

I have noticed that we as spanish speakers we're not that picky with pronunciation when a non-native is speaking It, but the rest are a bit more kinda strict in that. So, neither of the 2 celebrities speaking spanish had a kinda perfect pronunciation, but I have to admit the first one was very impressive ❤

@HappyBeezerStudios

2 ай бұрын

The mindset of respecting the effort.

@bilbohob7179

Ай бұрын

Try now listen to Viggo M. or Anya T.J

@kellypinzonfrias5617

11 күн бұрын

Anya Taylor Joy is half british half argentinian. She stay in Argentina till 8 years old. Her Spanish is perfect! And she has the accent. She is truly bilingual! ​@@bilbohob7179

I agree that the practice of speaking is crucial in learning. I had learnt Chinese when I was very young but I now live in a little town where no one here speaks this language; my level of vocab is now so poor. I had purchased some school textbooks to relearn it again. Luckily there are so many online resources that are available now when compared to 20 years ago.

@Lampchuanungang

2 ай бұрын

True practicing your chinese on the web now.

@HappyBeezerStudios

2 ай бұрын

I've did much more for english online after finishing school than what we had in class. Simply using the language did so much.

Could have posted Bradley Cooper and Jodie Foster speaking French too. Both are quite exceptional, especially Jodie Foster.

@puccaland

3 күн бұрын

They aren't exceptional or not sure what you mean by that? Exceptional as Americans? Jodie foster studied at the French school and Cooper lived some years in a French speaking country as a child.

@manchesterunitedno7

3 күн бұрын

@@puccaland Jodie Foster grasp of French is native level. She even starred in a couple of French movies.

@puccaland

3 күн бұрын

@@manchesterunitedno7 Yes, that's because she was educated in the French system. Any kid educated in the French system ends up speaking like a native speaker.

Will Smith, if you see this video, man your knowledge of Spanish is great and we can see it. It's just fluency that doesn't sound perfect because, obviously, you probably don't need to speak in Spanish everyday. Great knowledge 👍

@MrsLizziee

2 ай бұрын

Dude... it's not. lmao

Chris Pratt did not have B1 level there! It was really A1, or if we’re really generous we could say A2. (I think my level is A2 and it is much better than his there.)

@janslehmann05

18 күн бұрын

She was being gracious 😅

Not shocked to see Kobe there with Italian, it is pretty well known among basketball fans that he spoke great Italian.

@thebenis3157

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, he really did, his grammar and vocabulary wasn't like perfect perfect, but his pronunciation was super good, genuinely just sounded like some guy from northern Italy

@Minerva-fp1zx

2 ай бұрын

He grew up in Italy.

@nicoladc89

2 ай бұрын

To be honest his Italian wasn't so good for a man who lived in Italy for 7 years, he had a good pronunciation and a good accent, but he wasn't speaking Italian, he was speaking English with Italian words. He spoke very better after the answer we see in this clip when the interviewer asked him less formal questions and he speak more natural. Sportmen has very often a "pre build scheme" of answers, even when they speak in their language, when the interviewer asked him about his feelings about receiving an award he translate that scheme in Italian, probably he said the exactly same thing to any other journalist.

Wow, the Italian lady is incredibly beautiful. ❤

@EmilyMatthias0

Ай бұрын

She reminds me of Anya Taylor Joy

I read French and listen to French audiobooks. 💯💙

Great video! I like it!

Will Ferrell his wife is from Sweden 💛💙 In August 2000, Ferrell married Swedish actress Viveca Paulin, whom he met in 1995 at an acting class. It sounded like it was German cause of his volume. Same happens when American try to speak Dutch... it always sounds like German and never ever Dutch 😢 I know i am Dutch.

"Today we watched American celebrities speaking different languages." Emma Watson: 😳

@anemosoriginal

2 ай бұрын

Hahah I thought the same 😅

@AseBonani

Ай бұрын

Ooooooh, hahahahahaha 😂😂 Now that you mention it... I missed that. 😂

Hello World Friends, I'd like to know the funky tune's title starting from 14:23 Thanks PS: not listed in the description 😅

@Lampchuanungang

2 ай бұрын

😅😅😅

I would like to have met more french people like this girl 🥰

Somebody please tell the producers that the Italian and French flags have the colors in the opposite way. Red is on the right side for both.

@goofygrandlouis6296

2 ай бұрын

They are Koreans. They have no ideas about Europe anyways.

@2WarriorJay8

2 ай бұрын

did they stick them on upside down and not realize

@Minerva-fp1zx

2 ай бұрын

They stuck them on upside-down

@smtuscany

2 ай бұрын

@@Minerva-fp1zx Yes, but it's not the first time, they keep doing that.

@echo444

2 ай бұрын

I think it's because the image is reversed with the camera

That swedish girl i can watch for hours....wow!

@anemosoriginal

2 ай бұрын

She is cool 😊

Will Ferrell's wife Viveca Paulin is a Swedish actress and producer. She was born in Gothenborg Sweden. Viveca Paulin was in the movies. Money Talks (1997) staring Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker and Heather Locklear. And the movie. Martial Law (1998) staring Kely Hu. Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung. Sammo Hung is known from the Bruce Lee movies. Enter the Dragon (1973) and Game of Death (1978).

I must say I am impressed that they all speak such good English! and I must say beautiful ladies, especially those who are French, German, Swedish🙂 /Sweden

@OmegamonUI

2 ай бұрын

i find this format good. all people in the should life so. friendly to other and a little bit interessing in other cultures. then we had no war. but if i see in germany my home country a company biuld a facrory they produce munition.

@lifted_above

Ай бұрын

The majority of native populations hate war, respect other countries and cultures. It's governments, corporations, agencies who start wars over evil motives, who do so much damage to cultures by forced immigration and destruction of historical and cultural significance within Nations.

Learning other languages is so important for knowing other cultures, and leads to being a better human. It makes it hard to fault anyone who tries, because it’s already an act filled with fear and trepidation.

I've only been learning Spanish for 8 months, but was surprised that I could understand most of what Gweneth Paltrow was saying.

Finally Madrid represented !! Welcome Carolina! 😃

I speak Brazilian Portuguese, English, a little bit of Spanish and now I'm learning Italian 😍

@lunayoshi

2 ай бұрын

Take Canadian French to mix things up! (kidding, keep up with your studies, champ.

@junniormattos1

2 ай бұрын

@@lunayoshi actually, French is the next I want to learn, 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 is it the Canadian too different from the France?

@lunayoshi

2 ай бұрын

@@junniormattos1 Not too different, but definitely distinguishable. We were taught European French in high school and our teacher said speaking it to someone from Quebec would get you amused looks, like they'd know you were definitely not Canadian. To be honest, I don't know anybody that'd actually teach Canadian French, but that was pretty much the point of the joke, haha.

@junniormattos1

2 ай бұрын

@@lunayoshi oh, I see haha

@Alina-pf3ob

Ай бұрын

Buongiorno. Come va? Perché vuoi imparare l'italiano?

Swedish has pitch accents instead of stress accents, that's why most foreigners think it sounds so melodic or sing songy

@samppakoivula9977

2 ай бұрын

I have noticed that if you stress the first syllable while speaking swedish you can actually just very believable: Det är ABSOlut VIKtigt för man att RÖra sig VARje dag XD

@caroskaffee3052

2 ай бұрын

I mean yeah you could call it a melody 😂 although it just makes the sound of the language overall choppy and harsh

@yesplatinum7956

2 ай бұрын

@@caroskaffee3052 Swedish sounds harsh?

@caroskaffee3052

2 ай бұрын

@@yesplatinum7956 yes extremely. try to read the sentence that the second commenter wrote without sounding like you want to unalive someone

@yesplatinum7956

2 ай бұрын

@@caroskaffee3052I’d say it’s soft because our English accents sound very silly and we also don’t have many harsh sounds. Choppy I’ll take tho.

Gwyneth Paltrow dated King Felipe VI of Spain (at that time still prince). Imagine QUEEN GWYNETH!

Viggo Mortensen. English Spanish Danish Catalan French Italian

I'm so used to listening to them speaking in English, that whenever they speak a different language, it sounds like they're being dubbed! lol

They should have had Malin Åkerman. she speaks perfect Swedish but is a celebrity, same as many other swedish celebs.Two that are not swedish but married to swedish women are Hugh Grant and Micheal Fassbender. I know Micheal F has said a few words in swedish on The Graham Norton show.

@tetepeb

2 ай бұрын

She has Swedish parents so it´s not that weird that she can speak fluent Swedish allthoug she speaks Swedish with an American accent.

@Ulfscher

2 ай бұрын

@@tetepeb - Malin does make a few slight, barely noticeable grammar mistakes. She also uses some English words/expressions translated literally into Swedish which makes it a bit unidiomatic. Her accent is basically flawless though. I hear native speakers that sound like her in my area.

@tetepeb

2 ай бұрын

@@Ulfscher She is more American than Swedish if we are being honest so it's not that weird that she's not 100% ok the grammer and so on.

@Ulfscher

2 ай бұрын

@@tetepeb - absolutely.

Yes Sandra Bullock has a (very slight) Franconian accent

@hnrccaa

2 ай бұрын

.. plus a bold American accent aswell, pretty wild blend 😁

@inotoni6148

2 ай бұрын

Yea, because she growe up in Nürnberg

Just a video idea,maybe a video of people from France or French speaking countries pronouncing the names from those countries or regions. Love to hear the native pronunciation of Charles Leclerc(Monaco F1 driver),Kevin De Bruyne(Belgium footballer)Sophie Marceau(French actress) and many many more

@HenrikJansson78

2 ай бұрын

Could easily be done with more than one country. Pretty much every developed country in the world have some famous people that the US americans butcher the pronounciation of. :)

@Carolydu89

2 ай бұрын

The only one you can easily read is « Sofi Marsso » ahaha Unfortunately we can’t comment with vocals

I know Anthony Blinken, Joseph Gorden Levitt and Gemma Arterton can speak fluent French. King Charles III of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is fluent in German. David Lee Roth can also speak fluent Spanish. Also Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen are fluent in Dutch (but that’s only because they were born in The Netherlands) And then you have Christopher Lee, who is fluent in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Kobe Bryant's (R.I.P.) father played basketball in Italy and Kobe lived sometime in Italy during his childhood.

The French girl has her flag facing the wrong direction. It is Bleu Blanc Rouge.

Was waiting for #AnaIvanović during the German part of the video...😁

I thought Will Ferrell would start channeling the Swedish chef!🤣🤣🤣

@Vinterfrid

2 ай бұрын

Why is that?

Lady Gaga's birth name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. Both of her parents have Italian ancestry.

It's nice that they say that hand gestures are an Italian prerogative but then everyone does them

Chalamet speaks a really good French. The accent is not perfectly on point, tho, and I think French people care more about that than in most other countries for historical reasons (Jacobinism).

Please more Videos with Carol. She is very lovely❤

They missed Freddie Highmore and josh Hutcherson for Spanish!!

@revertnicolas5977

2 ай бұрын

Freddie Highmore speak also very well French and also arab. He is talented

@kennalime5644

2 ай бұрын

wow I had no idea! @@revertnicolas5977

@enriquegonzaga3865

Ай бұрын

Viggo Mortensen speaks a perfect Argentian Spanish and he also speaks danish, catalan and Italian. And obviously English.

Nothing will beat some Italian politician trying to speak english...trust me, I'm italian.

@anemosoriginal

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@revertnicolas5977

2 ай бұрын

No. French politician are worst haha. But we don't care. We are French after all haha

The most effective way to learn a new language is the Hellen Keller method, ie just immerse yourself in the language

Cha Du-Ri was born and raised in Germany. So he is as fluent as any native speaker could be...

I could also hear that both Gwyneth Paltrow and the commenter learnt Spanish around Madrid, as I did too. But actually Paltrow’s accent is better than mine, which is my weak point.

@2o2k78

Ай бұрын

Her accent is pretty good for an American, they usually cannot get rid of the american r 😂

the girl from spain is beautiful!!

For Timothée Chalamet, he is Franco-American. His father is French, but they lived in New York. He has that kind of French like Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, who are both Francophones but have lived among Anglophones, so there is a slight difference between their French and that of Francophones who have lived in a Francophone country/region. For Emma Watson, it's the opposite; her parents are British, but they lived in Paris, where she was born.

Italian 🇮🇹 and French 🇫🇷 flags on the girls are upside-down!! 🙄

Sir Christopher Lee could speak all of these languages. Im not sure it has been recorded at a point when he speaks swedish . But he was a genious in so many ways.

Actually Lady Gaga considers herself “italian-american”, her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, an italian surname like a huge perecentage of people from NY who has italian roots. But she definitely can’t speak italian anyway

@marty8895

2 ай бұрын

She doesn’t even have 100% Italian roots. Just her grandfather from her father side was Italian. I don’t know why she call herself Italian American when her family is very mixed. She just do it for clout because being Italian is “cool” imo. She doesn’t want to pass as a plain white woman.

Hats off to Will, Swedish is a hard language to learn and even though it was far from perfect, he still could make himself understood. I hope his wife is teaching him how to speak Swedish and not just the words to say.

Shame that you did not have the interview with Richie Faulkner from tge band judas priest where he speaks Swedish.

As a Swede, it was very easy to adopt the Australian English accent 😂

U guys ahould include son heung min he speaks really well

Gwenyth Paltrow speaks Spanish well, but she struggled with her past tense (hacía vs. hice).

I am native Spanish and speak quite fluent (but accented) English and German and basic Italian... Most of the people that sound native are born or brought up as pure bilinguals (my kids are so, they speak my three main languages as natives, with dialect accent). Gwyneth was in a small city in Toledo called Talavera de la Reina for 6 months or one year and you can hear very good Spanish but a bit rusty. It happens to me when I do not practice with natives for a while. And Will Smith Spanish was better than Chris German in my opinion. If you want to speak another language, practice, practice, practice. Forget the shyness, do it half wrong. It gets better through the way.

I agree that the woman in the second video speaks German very well and what the German person said is true like a native speaker even though I am not German and cannot speak German.

Sandra Bullock is not only half German, but also spent basically her entire youth in Germany, so yeah, she speaks the language she grew up with and Cha Du-Ri is LITERATLLY German, like, he was even born here ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

@empty_akuma6577

2 ай бұрын

I was wondering about Cha Du-Ri. I thought he either has been living in Germany for a long ass time, or he's just straight up German.

@earthsruby

2 ай бұрын

@@empty_akuma6577 I do have to back up a little: As far I was able to find out, he never actually got the German citizenship. BUT he was born here and spent a long amount of time living here, just like his father. So he technically could be a "true German".😆

@empty_akuma6577

2 ай бұрын

@@earthsruby Yeah, to me that means he's German 😄 Many children of immigrants that are born here don't have a German passport, because I think the bureaucracy about double citizenship is fairly complicated.

@Lampchuanungang

2 ай бұрын

Wow very complicated

Sandra Bullock grew up in Nuremberg. She speaks the Franconian dialect of German.

4:34 Not entirely true but somewhat, standard german is based on mostly middle german (and high german aka even further south) dialects, it was made to have a common language when the printing press was invented and the bible got translated. In North Germany we have low german which is a different language with the same root as high german, if people spoke low german, most germans wouldn't understand it so in the north people started to just use standard german unless its grandparents or parents at home (it is mutually intelligible with old english as that also has the same root, so people often say low german is somewhere between dutch and english). We basically have less of a dialect because we had to completely change to a different language (that being the middle german-based standard german) rather than changing a few words. And even then you can clearly hear when someone is from close to the north sea or baltic coast because they do speak with a bit of a dialect. The least dialect and most "standard" standard german is spoken in Hannover which is further to the middle of the country. Actually if i take my grandparents as an example, who spoke mainly low german, their standard german has more of an accent rather than a dialect, which makes sense. They sounded a lot more natural when speaking low german.

@olafgogmo5426

2 ай бұрын

No, standard german is based on middle german, especialy on "sächsische Kanzleisprache" witch was used by Martin Luther. And Hannover is definitely in Northern Germany. In the 19th century people in Hannover still spoke low german.

@TheSteakLP

2 ай бұрын

@@olafgogmo5426 yea which is why i said further to the middle of the country and not "in central germany" people also still spoke low german in hannover in the 20th century, nowadays its just the older generations like anywhere in north germany, but you can't really tell an accent like with people closer to the coast like in Schwerin, Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen or Oldenburg. The "sächsische Kanzleisprache" wasn't just middle german but a mix of middle german and high german and was used for interregional communication rather than regional. But yes, I should've said middle german rather than high german as it was mostly middle german.

@Lampchuanungang

2 ай бұрын

The problem of Standard German that persists to this day was a mistake, they were right to include Middle and Low German, but they made a big mistake when they excluded Northern Low German, so they ended up creating an unnecessary diglossia and isoglossia and there are dialects being suppressed from In a crazy way, the story would have been much better if Low German had been part of standard German now.

... and the girls were all good at English - I think comfortable with their ability and capability.

Geena Davis would have been perfect for Swedish

I am moving to Sweden!

Bradley Cooper speaks French. I heard him on a French program and he just took the earpiece out and asked if they could just speaking french

For whatever reason, it is really bothering me that the French and Italian tricolors on the name tags are backwards. I don't know what countries those name tags represent, but they aren't France and Italy. It isn't a matter of reverse-perspective of the shot or anything, because the other flags are correct. I guess there was no time to fix them prior to the taping?

Lady gaga has italian heritage actually

Sandra Bullock definitely has an American accent but her German is still very very good

Hearing Gwenyth Paltrow speak Spanish is so honorable. I’m from Ecuador, (not neutral, but OK) but her speech is very fluent,

@anemosoriginal

2 ай бұрын

She is amazing 😊

@MrsLizziee

2 ай бұрын

Her accent is what they call "neutral" in Spain. Context is the key.

@Ometecuhtli

2 ай бұрын

She has a very neutral accent, actually I was thinking she could do some dubbing work without any problem.

I don't know a single word of swedish and i laughted a lot with the swedish part and also sounded german for me 😂

@caroskaffee3052

2 ай бұрын

people will hear any language being spoken loud and harshly and be like "is this german"

Typical French "it's not pefect but good job" even though it was perfectly fluent.

@sion8

2 ай бұрын

It's never perfect, it'll always be 19/20.

@echo444

2 ай бұрын

Timohtée Chalamet nor Emma Watson are fluent, she was juste saying the truth ...

@Ometecuhtli

2 ай бұрын

Un point extra pour le 19/20. 0,9 je veux dire.

@mataqiel

Ай бұрын

These responses just reinforce the whole point of the post. Most other countries simply appreciate others speaking their language and don't require perfection. If a foreigner can easily be understood by the native, I don't understand the criticism.

@echo444

Ай бұрын

@@mataqiel As a french person, we do appreciate a lot that foreigners try to speak french ! However what is the point of saying woah you're completly fluent whereas it's not the truth ? it's hypocritical

My rule when I travel is to be able to say, at a minimum, please, thank you, where is the toilet, I'm sorry, how much, all of the numbers, and where am I (while holding a map, in the days before phones had maps), and the forms of transportation. My next level is, "I think I'm in the wrong place; can you tell me where...?" Starting with an apology or acknowledging it's not the other person's job to help goes a LONG way.

Cha Du-Ri didn't learn german, he literally sounds like every other german born and raised football (soccer for our american friends) player of any german club in every tv interview. Not native level, just native. Sandra Bullock has a actually a mixed dialect. I would say franconian, bavarian and a hint of norhtern austrian. Certainly south-east german mix, nothing from baden-württemberg. But also a very subtle english accent in certain words, but grammar and sentence structure are definitely native level. She sound like a german who lived in different parts of the south-east (maybe even Austria) for long enough as a child to adapt the accent and then moved away sometime in her teens to the US. Chris Pratt definitely learned german as an adult, the english accent is very prominent, but still understandable. While his sentences are rather short and simple, his understanding of the language apears to be really good though.

I wish the Swedish example had been Trixie Mattel.

I bet when she said "I love him for trying" she wasn't being condescendant, we actually do love when they try!

@LHLH78

2 ай бұрын

it comes across as extremely condescending

@MrsLizziee

2 ай бұрын

@@LHLH78 You don't know our culture. It's fine...

La seule qui a mis son drapeau à l'envers c'est la française 😂

I feel like Will Ferrell probably can speak better Swedish than that, maybe he was just being his usual goofball self. I'm about at Will Smith's and Chris Pratt's level with Spanish and German. Forming sentences and speaking is definitely at a different level of complexity than just reading paragraphs, comments, etc.

@Divig

2 ай бұрын

Mostly he was using some vowels that are hard if one is not native, like our u. And as the swedish girl said, the melody is wrong. But one could understand everything he said.

@HenrikJansson78

2 ай бұрын

Strange that the swedish girl didn't mention Wills butchering of our swedish ä. Ä is not A. He did the å quite well though. :)

@watermelon3679

2 ай бұрын

​@HenrikJansson78 he also made a grammatical mistake

She even was born in Germany...

Did anyone else misread the title card as “Caleb” and think this was going to analyze Liam O’Brien’s Critical Role campaign 2 character Or am I the only one who clickbaited himself?