This is the first time I've seen someone rank by fluency in a language. It's incredible! i always tell people it's better to know enough to get a point across than be 100% native in any language. Accents are welcome!

My favourites were Jodie Foster, Shakira surprised the heck out of me speaking perfect Brazilian Portuguese. Vigo Mortesen is amazing! And surely Christopher Lee was a legendary poliglot!

Jodie Foster’s French knocks me out. She should do an entire film in that language.

@lynnm7463

9 ай бұрын

She has done several films in french.

@bimokresno

7 ай бұрын

she went to college in france, she learnt the language when she was a child along with spanish n talian. she did speak some france words in some of her films.

Shakira also speaks Catalan I believe

@ruskisall

9 ай бұрын

Nobody cares about catalan

@aaron-damonkassner4715

7 ай бұрын

I believe it’s very little. Her ex was from Barcelona and probably knew a little bit.

I don’t know what Tom Hiddleston was speaking after Spanish, but I can assure you that wasn’t Greek haha

@spiritusIRATUS

9 ай бұрын

It was ancient Greek with Erasmian pronunciation I think. Still pretty impressive, as most Greek American celebrities like Jennifer Aniston do not speak any Greek at all.

And you guys didn’t mention Shakira speaks Catalán as well.. 😬 my fav is Viggo

Roger Federer, of course, speaks his native tongue: Schwiizerdütsch. Similar to German, but different.

I don't know abt giving the top spot to C Lee... he didn't seem all that fluent in some of those langs. I was most impressed with Audrey Hepburn. She seemed to have a deep understanding of, and skill in 5 langs, and she was prob conversational in a 6th. That's impressive.

@ginocastro5107

5 ай бұрын

Agree

After seeing this, I would of have thought Audrey would be the top one but Christopher Lee is pretty impressive with all those languages.

Novak Djokovic speaks Serbian/Croatian, English, Italian, French, conversational German & Spanish and very basic Mandarin & Russian. He's a real polyglot if I've ever seen one.

@Fluentu

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! 😊

@evilqueen90s00s

Жыл бұрын

Serbian and Croatian it's the same language! Just different accent

Very nice overview and nice to see some unexpected polyglots! However, singing in a language or reading a few lines from a paper does not qualify as speaking a language.......

I really like this three levels language classification system. It seems clearer and simpler to me than the more popular CEFR system. Anyone agrees or disagrees or maybe has an opinion on another language classification system altogether?

Viggo Mortensen is Argentinian so that's why his Spanish is fluently and at Argentina, people speaks Italian too like a second language.. I was living there as a child and for some schools there, we have English, French, Italian and Portuguese classes at school.

@eden19966

Жыл бұрын

No, he´s Danish/American, not Argentinian. He only lived in Argentina as a child, as well as in Venezuela and Denmark.

@luciamolino2868

Жыл бұрын

It's true we are pretty close to italian culture but we don't speak italian as a second language in Argentina, it is often taught in schools together with french and english I would rather say. With school classes I don't think it is enough to have Viggo Mortensen language skills btw

@vervideosgiros1156

Жыл бұрын

​@@eden19966 "He only lived in Argentina as a child"... so...? That what it takes: when you learn a language as a kid, it's way easier and you don't forget it much as if you learn a language as an adult!

@eden19966

Жыл бұрын

@@vervideosgiros1156 I opposed to the sentence "He´s argentinian", bc he isn´t. He is danish/american who happened to live a few years in Argentina as a child. I opposed his nationality, not his language.

@vervideosgiros1156

Жыл бұрын

@@eden19966 OK, I thought that you're saying that he didn't speak Spanish well because he just lived there when he was a kid. Many monolingual people think it's easier to learn a language as an adult, but it's quite the opposite!

Jodie Fosters French sounded perfect.

Natalie Portman también habla francés muy bien.

Do another list!

Viggo Morthensens "norwegian" is DANISH (again), not norwegian. My birth country and mother tongue is swedish, but I speak all scandinavian languages fluently, including Icelandic, so I know for sure.

@RizZaTV

Жыл бұрын

even finnish?

@eden19966

Жыл бұрын

@@RizZaTV No. That´s completely different.

@RizZaTV

Жыл бұрын

@@eden19966 i know 😁 i thought i ask anyway

@Quzinqa1122

8 ай бұрын

​@@RizZaTV🇫🇮 No, because Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language, not a Scandinavian one, and not even an Indo-European one.

@Quzinqa1122

8 ай бұрын

@Eden2089 🇧🇻🇩🇰 Yes, I also thought his Norwegian sounded suspiciously much more like Danish. 😂

Shakira also speaks Catalan

Correction: Viggo wasn't speaking Norwegian, he was speaking Danish. Scandinavians understand each other because their languages are so closely related and similar.

What I noticed is that, all of them know how to speak FRENCH or GERMAN. And I've been studying french for a few months now, I guess choosing french is not a bad choice at all. lol

@Fluentu

2 жыл бұрын

Good choice! 👏

@jamesbedugraham8056

Жыл бұрын

An excellent choice indeed.

Christopher Lee probably speaks Quenya as well and maybe Black Speech

please add novak djokovic to this list. also he speaks a few langs fluently

@eden19966

Жыл бұрын

And who is that? Not a well known actor, at all.

@arnaudsemelet6050

Жыл бұрын

@@eden19966 he's literally the best tennis player in the world with Federer and Nadal

@eden19966

Жыл бұрын

@@arnaudsemelet6050 Alright, thanks. My tennis interest is 0. Never heard of him.

@jeanlaureaudoynaud4776

11 ай бұрын

@@eden19966 Moi non plus, jamais entendu parler de lui. C'est qui ce Novak ?

@eden19966

11 ай бұрын

@@jeanlaureaudoynaud4776 English, please!

And what about Yul Bryner?

Freddie Highmore - English, Spanish, French, Arabic & Portuguese

I heard Christopher Lee speaking Czech also and I think Roger Federer speaks Italian too, and also probably knows some Slovak words because of his wife

Audrey Hepburn could speak multiple languages too

@kratino

8 ай бұрын

She was in the video.

Christopher waslsh also speaks Austrian

Wow im impressed

@Fluentu

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helps! 😊

I really like Tom Hiddleston but that wasn't greek. It was an effort to recite an ancient Greek text but with an English accent. And unfortunately not a successful effort. I have never heard a foreign person speaking Greek successfully and I can't understand why. Every time I hear someone from a foreign country speaking Greek it's like I hear a bizzarre language.

@christiandemailly9485

5 ай бұрын

I can speak Greek fluently, when I am in Greece people ask me if I am from Crete, where I learned it. Can also speak Russian, Italian ,Spanish, German, Not to bad Japanese, Arabic basic Polish, Slovak, Turkish and now I leave in Taiwan so learning Mandarin I also learn Tagalog and as I am French I also speak French.

I belive Christopher Lee could also speak the black speech from Mordor

Viggo speaks all the languages with an argentinian accent, argentinian spanish was his first language and is very evident

@anah3864

6 ай бұрын

Keep doubling down on the incorrect comments. It doesn’t make you right, it just makes you seem foolish.

@Caami199Serranista

6 ай бұрын

@@anah3864 and I care because...?

@TheCarlScharnberg

5 ай бұрын

No, he doesn't.

German operatic tenor Jonas Kaufmann (German, French, Italian, and...?). Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff (Hungarian, German, French, Italian, English, some Japanese). The late great Polish pianist Arthur Rubinstein (heaven only knows what language he did not speak!).

THE SWEDISH PRONOUNCIATION of ROGER!🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🤩🤩🤩 (I’m swedish as you prob can tell from my reaction) ”SKA VI SES GRABBEN!”🤣 - ”Wanna hang out my boy?”

What’s easy fluency ?

@pacificprincess5849

2 жыл бұрын

Speaking like a pro

@ispeakmucho

Жыл бұрын

Finding fluency easy. Boom

which were parents language vs learned?

Christopher Lee has the most amazing life

Viggo also speak elvish

Dalida and Nana Mouskuri sang in 10-11 languages. Mireille Matthieu is not far away.

Romelu Lukaku parle 8 langues : lingala, français, néerlandais, allemand, anglais, espagnol, portugais et italien.

@ginocastro5107

5 ай бұрын

Yes... that's right!

I am surprised that Djokovic is not on the list.

Ik spreek ja Engels , Nederlands , Duits , Spaans , Italiaans , Frans , Portugees , Zweeds , Hongaars.

@Fluentu

Жыл бұрын

That's great! 😍

@Quzinqa1122

8 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏😊

Damn! Mira Sorvino is said to be a polyglot, not sure if that's true.

Mads Mikkelson speaks English, Dutch, German, French and I think Italian and Spanish.

@eden19966

9 ай бұрын

Not true.

Shakira

Jodie Foster

They are all Americans of EUropean descent. Next time, put a few Asian American celebs as well. America is a melting pot and there is diversity in American people. Asian Americans aren't foreign in the US. If they are, so are these celebs shown in the video. We are all immigrants anyway.

lol Natalie can not speak Arabic

Peter Ustinov

@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158

6 ай бұрын

Yes, perfect Russian and French

Pope John Paul 2 spoke eight languages