Top 10 Celebs You Didn't Know Speak Multiple Languages
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@mistyb1183
2 жыл бұрын
No you cannot pick out music they’re horrible
@hariswani9833
2 жыл бұрын
I love all of them ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@erzaender
2 жыл бұрын
natalie portman and monica bellucci
@colleenpierson4007
2 жыл бұрын
@Trami Nguyen 1
I'm no celebrity but I can speak 8 languages.. I can speak French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and then 3 African languages - Swahili, Afrikaans and Xhosa
@izzyjackson63
2 жыл бұрын
You’re a god
@amandahaytasingh6314
2 жыл бұрын
That's amazing. I can barely speak 2. Lol
@jynxie17
2 жыл бұрын
Proof God has favorites😪
@Jeahkir
2 жыл бұрын
Same with me: German, English, French, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, some Russian and Czech and I learned Latin (but this isn't a language most people really "speak" today) :D.
@redlotus2805
2 жыл бұрын
@@Jeahkir you speak czech so you are czech person?
Christopher Lee was fluent in English, Italian, French, Spanish and German, and moderately fluent in Greek, Swedish and Russian.
@lizardog
2 жыл бұрын
That man had an amazing life. Deserves a bio movie.
@skyazullopez6726
2 жыл бұрын
How about the Elven language? I'm sure JRR Tolkien would agree.
@hossywoof
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, he was incredible. Sorry but this Top 10 isn't great.....some of the celebes is basically one sentence or poor. Esp those who supposedly 'speak' Spanish or Italian (good try but certainly not fluent nevermind fluent speakers). To finish, Mr Lee absolutely should be in this top 10!!!
@leoperidot482
2 жыл бұрын
Christopher Lee was a spy. It helps to know a foreign language or two.
@bluexray7429
Жыл бұрын
He studied some ancient Greek but he wasn't able to speak ancient or modern Greek Still very impressive tho
Tom Hiddleston is absolutely incredible. He can do so many things. Including playing the spoons. And he is such a kind human to fans.
@NForupvVO
2 жыл бұрын
Ever since I saw the cringe with De Niro, I noticed how much he brags and can’t unsee it. And I doubt he can speak all the languages. His Italian in the clip was proof. Now Bradley is impressive. His French is impeccable and he learnt it late in life.
@vervideosgiros1156
Жыл бұрын
@@NForupvVO This Tom Hiddleston guy might not be fluent in Italian, whatsoever, but his accent is pretty impressive! As for this Bradley guy, he's fluent in French and his accent is good.
Venus and Serena Williams both speak French, Italian and Spanish in addition to their native English and Venus can also speak a good bit of Chinese. Actors aren't the only celebs.
@greyhorseazeri
2 жыл бұрын
Kobe Bryant knew at least a few languages, too.
@delmicortave
2 жыл бұрын
Venus and serena are amazing
@kevinfacey6975
2 жыл бұрын
@@greyhorseazeri I am so glad that you mentioned him.
@devinreis5811
10 ай бұрын
Alexis Ohanian speaks Russian.
I wish Freddie Highmore had been included on this list. Freddie speaks French, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese.
@h0rn3d_h1st0r1an
3 ай бұрын
I AM A SURGEON
Obviously Charlize Theron can speak Afrikaans, because she WAS Afrikaans in South Africa 😂😂
@peterang6912
2 жыл бұрын
You mean " is" , she is still alive. .
@abdulalhazred4224
2 жыл бұрын
@@peterang6912 she lives in the us - with us passport
@peterang6912
2 жыл бұрын
@@abdulalhazred4224 it's about the "was", she " is" South African, she is alive and have 2 passports.
@thatsalt1560
2 жыл бұрын
@@peterang6912 *has (Hehe)
@peterang6912
2 жыл бұрын
@@thatsalt1560 has means she gave one of the passports back.. So she have only one passport...
One of the biggest surprises ever was hearing Viggo Mortensen speak perfect Argentinian Spanish, I would also add Anya Taylor Joy as she is fluent in Argetinian Spanish as well due to living there and her father being of Argentinian descent. As someone born in the USA there are a lot of People with Latino Parents that don’t speak Spanish at all so that’s a feat I say.
@Daaaanielle
2 жыл бұрын
People might fight you on the “Argentinian” thing but… as a Colombian? Yeah. The Argentinians and the Chileans have their own version of this thing. Chilean is borderline a different one all together.
@unclenelvis
2 жыл бұрын
My biggest surprise was that 2017 was in “the aftermath of Brexit”. Here in the uk we thought brexit took place in 2020 and not pre 2017. #alternativefacts
@marus815
2 жыл бұрын
@@Daaaanielle As an Argentinian, I have to say it's true. We mixed so much Italian with our Spanish...
@robertanthonyfairweather3416
2 жыл бұрын
One of the biggest surprises for me (for this video) was discovering that Aragorn himself could speak many languages (or at least a bit of each.) Yes, I (already) knew that Viggo Mortensen was Aragorn from The _LOTR_ Trilogy.
@mile_851
3 ай бұрын
He father is not Argentinian descent, he's white. White people have European descent. Her father was just born in Argentina, that's why he speaks Argentina's Spanish.
Alicia Vikander - Swedish is her native language she can also speak Danish very fluently, English of course Michael Fassbender - beside English he is fluent in German and Irish (Gaelic) Salma Hayek - Besides Spanish, her native tongue, she can also speak Portuguese fluently, English, and Arabic. Zoe Saldana - English & Spanish Shakira - English, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian ...
@Denis-89
2 жыл бұрын
He is not fluent in German anymore. He has said he needs to brush up on his German
@vervideosgiros1156
Жыл бұрын
Shakira- Spanish (first, because it's her native language), Arabic, English Spanish, Italian and French (she's not fluent, but she speaks the language).
@julkasteven8198
Жыл бұрын
I know it's a fictional language but Zoe can also speak Navi.
Tom hiddleston is amazing guy he is so lovely to his fans and takes time to talk to them
You forgot Lupita N'yongo who speaks Spanish, Luo, Swahili and of course English.
I'm pretty fluent in Spanish and it's one of my favorite languages. I would also love to learn Italian, Welsh, Hebrew, Arabic, French and Scottish AND Irish Gaelic.
@yoda105
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a fluent Irish speaker. It's not that hard. It's just thr grammar that gets you
@lilianecarvalho2940
2 жыл бұрын
Aprenda português, é parecido com espanhol, vai ser fácil pra você.
Bilingualism in the U.S is something that’s more tolerated than embraced
@stefs3460
2 жыл бұрын
My Dad who immigrated to US in the late 60s speaks 4 languages fluently and is working on his 5th. He likes to tell the joke "a person who speaks 2 languages is called bilingual, a person who speaks 3 languages is called trilingual , what do you call someone who speaks only one language?... American!😂
@mamalove3945
2 жыл бұрын
@@stefs3460 Sad, but true
@dc4457
2 жыл бұрын
In most of the country it simply isn't necessary to learn a language other than English. It is an academic exercise for people or a way to connect with distant roots on another continent. Outside of cities with large immigrant populations it is common to go weeks, months or even years without hearing another language spoken unless you visit a Chinese or Mexican restaurant. You can travel a thousand miles in any direction within the US and English is still the primary language. In Europe if you travel a hundred miles you are likely somewhere with a completely different language and culture, so there is a major incentive for multilingualism.
@PrincessAmenRa
2 жыл бұрын
Only 20% of Americans are bilingual compared to 56% of Europeans.
@keijimorita1849
2 жыл бұрын
Part of why I'm moving out.
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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2 жыл бұрын
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Can't believe Daniel Bruhl wasn't on this list at all when he has several movies in many different languages.
@walterty3627
2 жыл бұрын
The Barcelona-born actor's first languages are German, Spanish, & Catalan, with French, English, & possibly some Italian.
I love how Natalie is here with Mila who also is fluent in Russian but not mentioned on list.
@devinreis5811
10 ай бұрын
Alexis Ohanian speaks Russian as well.
it's always funny when they show Shakira speaking spanish in this topic. She was born and grew up in Columbia! It's like showing Christoph Waltz speaking german.
I wish learning a new language would have been mandatory when I was in school.
@mile_851
3 ай бұрын
You can still learn one for yourself. It's actually a lot more enjoyable and realistic to learn a language because you WANT to vs FORCED to. (Of course not counting people who move to a different country).
@SweetSerenity79
2 ай бұрын
@@mile_851 I see what you're saying and you are right but I wasn't allowed to. But had it been mandated it wouldn't be their choice to make.
@Whippy99
19 күн бұрын
Here in the UK we have to learn a language. The choices are: French, Spanish and German. French is really useful considering our close proximity to France. I learned French from the age of 10.
Some speak foreign languages, and some can only say "thank you" in a few languages.
I'm from the UK and I can speak Swedish. It always impresses me and warms my heart to see people learning other languages
It's very impressive and commendable. My doctor/GP here in Copenhagen, working in our most diverse area, speaks a multitude of languages. He's from Armenia and ofc speaks Armenian, but also Danish, Swedish, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, English, Polish, Russian, French, Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic and Portuguese. He also speaks Serbo-Croat, and maybe that should count as one or many, just like the scandinavian languages. He is also a really great and compassionate person.
@miriam4628
2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Your doctor must be amazing at learning languages! To be able to speak so many languages must be incredible 😩❤️ (I can speak well only 3 languages unfortunately😓)
I mean…any celebrity that lives outside of the U.S. doesn’t really surprise me.
Very impressive. But I am surprised that neither the narrator nor anyone involved in the production of this video knew that "bilingual" is pronounced "bilinGWal" and not "bilinGYOOWal". And she said the word several times.
Mariska Hargitay from Law and Order: SVU knows English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Hungarian.
What about Shakira?? She can speak 6 different languages!!!
I wish I had studied harder. I took 3 years of French and can't hold a conversation in it to save my life.
@jynxie17
2 жыл бұрын
I've been doing Spanish since I was 6... I'm 30 and still can't hold a convo.
@SusieRed
2 жыл бұрын
@@jynxie17 😆 We think they talk too quickly and they say the same about us.... at least the French and Spanish people do lol. I think immersion is the only way to learn.
You forgot Jane Fonda - she learned French when she was married to director Roger Vadim. John Malkovich went to the same school as Jodie Foster - Lycee Francais de Los Angeles - & speaks French. The Affleck brothers spent a year in Mexico when they were children & could speak Mexican Spanish. Tatiana Maslany was born & raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada & is trilingual - English, German, & French. Cobie Smulders & Emily Vancamp, being also Canadians, are bilingual in English & French.
@Golden_Girl7123
Жыл бұрын
Love Malkovich!!! His command of French is divine
Robin Williams learned Russian, Robert DiNiro learned Sicilian, Giovanni Ribisi Italian, and Tommy Lee Jones speaks fluent Spanish.
In conclusion, it’s Tom Hiddleston’s world and we are just living in it
@freya8133
2 жыл бұрын
Huh?
Tom Hiddleston is the perfection.
Why show shakira speaking spanish? she is from colombia lmao
@minenoturs4271
2 жыл бұрын
righ? thats what isayd 😆
You forgot Trevor Noah , he speaks 7 languages
@leoperidot482
2 жыл бұрын
Trevor Noah is not a polyglot.
As a French, Jodie Foster is impressive because she sounds just like a native speaker. The rhythm, the vocabulary, the lack of accent... You can only tell this is not her first language from the very rare mistakes she makes.
@angelangelsubs
2 жыл бұрын
it happens when she speaks italian too, it’s shocking
@linanafie8571
2 жыл бұрын
I would hope so that her French is perfect haha she graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles :)
Currently learning Japanese and also wish to learn/relearn French, Spanish, Italian and Scottish Gaelic 😄
Your way to say "Monica Bellucci" is awesome 😂 I love it
Tom hiddleston can do everything...
@johnlalrinkima7590
2 жыл бұрын
Periodt
@lindildeev5721
2 жыл бұрын
Except winning at Paper Scissors against the Valkyrie.
@donna8
2 жыл бұрын
Wish he would do me.
@freya8133
2 жыл бұрын
Except shave.
@-Mitra-
2 жыл бұрын
What all that hype around this actor about? He's just had learned by memory some sentences that he repeats here and there. That doesn't make a person fluent or even beginner.
Tom Hiddleston is a real goat of idioms
jackie chan, of course he speaks mandarin. as his movies were exported to other countries. he began learning other languages.
AKwaaba? Well that was surprising... You did an ad for the song in NPE 😳
I am not a celebrity but I also speak several languages: German, Swedish, Italian, French, English and am learning Russian, Japaneese and Swahili.
really?!!!? Shakira speaking spanish, and Charlize Theron speaking afrikaans?:)))
I knew that Meryl Streep had learnt Polish to portray her role in Sophie's choice and I was expecting for her an honourable mention at least
@Denis-89
2 жыл бұрын
Can she still speak it though? The list is about people who can speak languages...
@JulyGiulia
2 жыл бұрын
@@Denis-89 I can't say it for sure but once you learn to speak a language, I don't think you are able to forget anything about it
@Denis-89
2 жыл бұрын
@@JulyGiulia it depends on how often you use it. Some languages I learnt in school I forgot because I never used them..
@vervideosgiros1156
Жыл бұрын
@@JulyGiulia If you don't practice you forget, but if you really learned it well, you practice and it comes back to you. Polish is very difficult, though...
Inspiring
🇬🇷 One who learns to speak and understand the unique Greek language is known to have a linguistic …superpower, on so many levels.⭐️
Me now trying to learn Spanish and Mandarin Chinese....man it ain't easy. Really an amazing feat for these actors
Tom hiddleston also knows British sign language
If Tom Huddleston is considered speaking a language because he know one sentence, I'm able to speak about 10 different languages. That DOESN'T COUNT
Im completely blown away. Wow
What about Daniel Brühl? He has spoken numerous languages across many movies
Could you please do top 10 Lucifer songs?
I took Spanish class for like a week. For some reason my schedule was changed and I was taken out of that class.
How cool is that to be able to dub your own voice, in your own films bc you're such a lingual badass
I want to learn Deutsch ( German ) 🇩🇪 , Français ( French ) 🇲🇫 , Español ( Spanish ) 🇪🇸 , Italiano ( Italian ) 🇮🇹 and Português ( Portuguese ) 🇧🇷 🇵🇹
I want to learn japanese, and greek. I also want to get back into learning french and spanish.
Well, if I use the same criteria as used in this video and other similar about speaking languages, then I personally speak (in no particular order): French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian. That's 14 of them. Do I have to become an actor for anybody to be impressed?
You PROBABLY didn't know that Latin pop singer SHAKIRA is ACTUALLY of SPANISH DESCENT, and speaks FLUENT Spanish! Cut to Shakira: "Ley leY lEy LeY le ley!"
In US people are surprised the celebrities speak other languages while in EU it is normal to speak more than a language, sometimes even 3 or 4.
I can speak English, Spainish and French and have some proficiency in Irish Gaelic and German. Also know some words/phrases in other languages but not enough to claim any proficiency in them.
Tom Hiddleston is the definition of perfection, that man can do anything but what about Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton ???
And... Where is Freddie Highmore?
I didn't know some of these actors and actresses can speak multiple languages that's pretty awesome. I didn't Tom Hiddleston can speak German and Italian. That's so wow. XD
@Jeahkir
2 жыл бұрын
He doesn't speak German, he just knows some words. Overrated.
@vervideosgiros1156
Жыл бұрын
@@Jeahkir He doesn't speak Italian: he just know some phrases. His accent is pretty good, though.
I started learning French at the start of the pandemic and it’s tough but I’m so happy now. I used to live in Denmark, fair play to anyone who can speak Danish. I couldn’t master it 😭
@thatsalt1560
2 жыл бұрын
I'm Swedish and Swedish and I can understand written Danish because it's so close to Swedish, but understanding it spoken or pronouncing it is hard. Especially pronunciation. I really can't bend my tongue that way.
@luisojea
2 жыл бұрын
Ingen kan master dansk, ikke danskene heller
I'm no celeb, but I can speak english and Spanish fluently and a bit of french.. I also love singing songs in Japanese, but don't actually know the language.
Why isn't Boris Kodjoe up here he, speaks over 3 different languages ??
I forgot how beautiful Jody Foster was when she younger.
I'm not fluent in anything except English, but I can speak a little bit ASL, German, French, and Spanish. I want to be fluent in all of the languages and also braille.
I speak enhlish, german, croatian...born in Slovenia...always wanted to learn portugese and spanish.
Where the heck is Mariska Hargitay?! She speaks 5 languages 😳
What I learned from this top : _ Edward also knows Japanese _Christoph also dubs his movies in French _Natalie actually learned many languages (I've never seen any videos of her practicing)
I don’t doubt their language skills but the clips don’t really reflect their speaking abilities.. especially Tom speaking Italian lol
Japanese is SO underrated, when i started learning i fell in love. foreign music is cool and Loki is POG
I would love to learn Celtic and Spanish
i grew up learning 4 (english, bangla, urdu, hindi), im currently learning 3 more (spanish, french, korean)!!
WOW! Latin sounds like Italians to me. That last dude was so pissed off with you.
I think that this goes for alot of people is that I can sing in different languages but I don't speak it fluently.
You forgot Connie Nielsen. Apart from Danish and English, she speaks French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish and some Spanish
Some people have that skill. I have a hard speaking English sometimes. LOL
I speak english,gaelic,welsh,and apache. I know a bit of spanish and asl(american sign language) Can somewhat understand yiddish,hebrew,german,russian
Vigo's Spanish is perfect
Learned French in school and still can read it, and listen carefully get the jest of a conversation. But trying to console and upset Frenchwoman in the wake of the Paris shootings. All I can say, it was an awkward encounter. But I tried and that’s what’s important!
Mortenson also speaks Quenya.
I'm polylingual. Working on my 6th. English, Español, portugués, italiano & français.
Colin Firths Italian is pretty good
One celebrity that surprised me that can speak another language is Synyster Gates, lead guitarist of Avenged Sevenfold. He did an interview in perfect Spanish. I wouldn’t be surprised if he could speak German too. He’s of Spanish and German ancestry.
Viggo and Christopher can speak elfin as well, people forget that it's a real language like klingons .
No Daniel Wu mention? He learned mandarin and Cantonese in his early to mid twenties!
Monica Bellucci was also married to a French actor, Vincent Cassel. She mostly owes her French to him.
I want to learn 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇲🇫🇩🇪 : português , italiano , español , français and deutsch
Monica Bellucci knows french because she was married to a frenchman and has lived in France for over 20 years (you can’t help but pick up the language that way) and “knows” english just a little more than most italians do - that’s clear from Bellucci’s (very) strong italian accent she still retains while acting. Try listening to Luca Marinelli (The Old Guard) or, better, Pierfrancesco Favino (Angels and Demons, World War Z and others)….if it was just their voices and accents, you wouldn’t be able to tell they’re 100% born-and-bred italians. I’m italian, so I would know. :)
I'm surprised that some of these celebs can speak Spanish. That's awesome.
@minenoturs4271
2 жыл бұрын
when i saw Blossom ihad forgoten Mayim spoke spanish
what about Daniel Bruhl?
Tom Hiddleston is such a fine gentleman with millions of talents
I can only speak French and Spanish. I wanted to speak Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. But they are extremely difficult to learn, and I find it frustrating.
I would have assumed Christopher Lee would be one the first place. (Though maybe, with classical opera education it's just not that big of a surprise that he had to be fluent in multiple languages.) But this list verifies my suspicion - that most actors who haven't been raised in Germany/Austria/Switzerland and haven't lived here don't seem inclined to learn the language for as long as it takes to speak fluently. Which is understandable as German is rather hard - but it's also noticable in most Hollywood and British productions as most sentences that are supposed to be in German either just make no sense or are completely unintelligible. (Though I heard, same goes for Russian.)
Another video about something that I suspect "MsMojo Didn't Know"!
I am trying to learn Japanese and know a little German (mostly just Tokio hotel songs though) and I can count to 10 and say hi, how are you" "good, you? In german and spanish....I know about 3 french words maybe....but that's it....I cant hold anything close to a conversation besides english. I'm to lazy and my memory sucks to learn a full language ( I have a learning disability too ) but I try
Well, I'm pretty sure Finnish would be difficult language to learn for all of them. Even us Finns can't speak it right! 😂😂
You forgot Sorrell Booke. I understand he spoke at least five languages fluently.
Most Europeans are multi lingual
As if anyone didn't know about Christopher Waltz. He's bilingual or more in every film he's in.