They say the Taino are extinct, WE are not extinct, WE may be assimilated but we are here.

@froglegs30

3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy the look on people's faces when I tell them the Taino are not extinct.

@lorenzocassaro3054

2 жыл бұрын

I'm happy for you

About Viggo's spanish. He speaks perfect spanish, most of the time with an argentinian accent. So well, that you couldn't tell he is not argentine at all. I'm from Buenos Aires and I had the opportunity to speak a little bit with him, and believe me; he's one of us, it's imposible to guess he's not, no doubt about it. In this case, he puts on a spanish accent because it fits better with what he's reading.

@maca2459

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this : )

his voice is really beautiful and it sounds even better speaking spanish

Having "Aragorn" relate a historical account of my own country in two languages has been way too surreal for words. Incluso, debo admitir que me gustó más como lo leyó en español. Estuvo increíble!

Viggo could read the phone book in Spanish, and it would sound good, but this reading from Zinn's very important book is just remarkable. THanks for posting this!

HI IM from Argentina, He born in Denmark, and he grow up in My country, but he's speaking in a Spanish acent cause Bartolomé de Las casa was from Spain. he's trying to imitate that acent. But He speak in a perfect argentinan acent. Saludos!

I agree... A very important reading in any language, I also love to hear Viggo speaking Spanish and am attempting to learn the language myself in my old age, he is the greatest actor, he is everything!! What a renaissance man!!

Just love when he speak Spanish. Can't understand a word, but it sounds beautiful. Thank you very much, Viggo.

I really appreciate how the pitch of his voice sounds different when he starts speaking Spanish. You can tell he really knows his stuff. He's speaking old Spanish yet his accent and tone is perfect!

@JulianLopez-wv5el

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm, maybe he is from Spain, don’t they all talk like that

For those of you who don't speak spanish, he usually speaks spanish with an argentinian accent.but, on this lecture he is speaking with a perfect european spanish accent... not an easy task.

Thank you for that beautiful reading! Important in all languages! x

I may not understand much of what he said in Spanish, but the way he talk when talking Spanish just makes my heart giddy. The end was priceless! ;3

Viggo, tu español es perfecto. Enhorabuena. Enseño literatura, me encanta Alatriste y sólo me faltaba escucharte leer tan bien el texto del padre Bartolomé de las Casas. Me deja sin palabras este hombre!!

viva Viggo!

Viggo goes from one accent to another, from one language to another, amazing! This was incredibly hard to hear, heartbreaking in fact. Esperemos que algun dia nos devuelvan el oro de nuestros indegenas por lo menos!

I could listen to him all day!!

Impresionante, Viggo. Me faltaba oírlo leer un clásico en castellano. ¡Es perfecto!

Wow, cuantos idiomas habla Viggo fluentes? Frances, español, danes, sueco inglés…etc, etc

Viggo is great...

OMG sounds so good !

He speaks better Spanish than I...lol.....He speaks spanish like a Spaniard.....you go Viggo! :)

his spanish is perfect. He said, he grew up in Argentina, here he reads with an spanish accent, but he actually speaks with an argentinian accent. Love it!

Gracias..

glorioso.

I would have followed you, my brother... my captain... my king.

He speaks perfect Castillian Spanish like a Spaniard, but I know that he originally learned in Argentina. He has no accent, like me. I have one, but it's a kind that can't easily determine from where in the world. Most people in Spain, tend to forget that I have an accent. He's one that can't help but admire, because so extremely multitalented and an intellectual. He's extremely intelligent in my favorite ways, the depths necessary to be, similar to my mother's home growing up, which are my roots, no matter if he makes a living the best, as an actor. A very good actor too. If my mother would have been allowed to be an actress? OMG Oscar winning movies. Her father could get away with being an artist, even if from a noble family, but not her in those times in Spain, and how she was being raised before her father died. The fact that able to also be so sociable, is just an added plus. That same stigma existed about me too, no matter if I was being raised in the US population. I'm like a crazy artist, but never was allowed to be, because my mother just mentally passed that same way about it all to me. My type of life in Spain, just reinforced it, did the same way. It's a block. My mother used to write beautiful poetry and prose, but block about having anything published. She's very artistically inclined, but ended up in a profession of science and medicine. Masters in nursing, and professor of nursing and midwifery, spoke six languages. Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Italian and German. She now has serious dementia. Life is a tragedy. Una tragicomedia. I see too much the global big picture truth. Will God even really bother to save it all. I hope so, but we also do live under universal deceit in the world. Illuminated mind parameters I'm in total awareness of that the same way as on the planet. A force that wants me to be just another what I don't want to be in the world. Some kind of martyr. I do have my own free will, no matter how much I see what can be done to others. Enslavement by other human beings, or by godlike beings in outer space, wtf difference does it make, yet the latter gave me the gift to see that. Must be The Annunaki of The Epic of Gilgamesh. So I have a name that fits in accordance with that kind too. It's ALL crazy.

Amazing, sad and forgotten passage of the History of the true Americans.

I just found a whole new respect for Viggo. I love to find A list actors speak different languages perfectly.

@silviogiordano3861

9 ай бұрын

bruh

llevamos años y años pidiendo perdón, ¡qué más tenemos que hacer!, Digan! Nuestros antepasados hicieron cosas horribles, terribles, realmente ESPANTOSAS! ...Gracias Sr. mortensen por recordarlo de nuevo.Qúe no se olvide nunca! No merecemos perdón alguno, nunca ! JAMAS!, Volvamos a instigar el odio, que crezca de nuevo, si todavía queda alguien sin odio, que empiece ahora a generarlo, Muchas gracias, Sr Mortensen y compañia!

Incredible Spanish ! Bravo !

VIGGO TE AMO

love Viggo-he's a loveable American and he appreciates our freedom to dissent.

bueniiismo! saluudos desde argentina. LaTinoamerica stAnd Up

first time wikipedia hasn't lied! his Spanish is so amazing. sounds native.

Mortensen born NYC - American mother & Danish father. Family moved to Venezuela, Argentina & Denmark, settling in Argentina. He learned Spanish. When he was 11, his parents divorced. He moved with his father to Copenhagen. Mortensen & his father eventually went back to the U.S. After high school, he returned to Denmark before again returning to the United States to pursue an acting career. He attended St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, earning a bachelor's degree in Spanish.

ME ENCANTA SU ESPANOL!!!! Deseo que seria tan buena.......tengo envidia.

!que hombre!

que divina manera de poder hablar español con acento de argentina y castellano de este actor, es increible!

@senzafinee yeah, apparently he's multilingual. I heard about this last night and had to see it. changed my view of him. go Viggo!

I totally am blown away by him and have been watching several videos ever since I first heard his quite amazing linguistic coolness. Academic point: he's got a natural Argentinian accent, usually. Here, he's speaking a rendition of Castellano, or what people have been calling "Castilian Spanish." The Spanish from Columbus's time was a much different, mixed up Spanish that would have been pronounced totally differently.

@formichedappertutto

10 жыл бұрын

He does not have an argentinian accent at all nor venezuelian in this public reading video. How come is he reading with his partner's accent? It sounds so fake.

:O i love him :D habla buenissimo el español

Nice.

OMG...... his voice is enough but in spanish too, my heart flutters bad.

Pues el otro día Viggo habló en catalán durante el Festival de Sitges (el momento está en youtube). Este hombre siente más respeto y admiración por el catalán que muchos españoles. Una lección más de Viggo.

He lived in Argentina when he was a child. He's preserved his Argentinian accent but not this time. He's speaking with accent from Spain, the same as when he played the role of Capitán Alatriste.

Aragorn!!!!!!!!!... sensishito y carismático viste ;)

de nada!

Viggo - you are my hero - Elessar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you for this truth!

@napoleonbonaparte5699

2 жыл бұрын

Cassandra Siraganda That´s fake And what about the British and American massacres on the Indians? At least the Spanish married and mingled with the Indians. Since the Spanish had a religion professed by the universal god. While the Anglo-Saxons believed themselves to be God's chosen ones, they killed the Indians in North America. Bartolome de las Casas was a slave owner. This friar proposed to replace the natives with black slaves. Apart from him In 1543 he was appointed Bishop of Chiapas but the rigorous moral demands of him provided him with the hostilities of some Indians. There were indigenous people who turned against him. I heard it from a historian named María Saavedra. In her books Indigenism and Evangelization: The First Expansion of Christianity in America. And also in her other book The Forging of the New World: Traces of the Church in America "...

@El7IncA a lot of Native people in the Caribean Island? the first inhabitants were an ethnic call Tainos and up today probably there are not more than 500 in a total population in dominican republic of 9.5 millions (roughly) , so can you explain that? also in southamerica for example Uruguay the spaniard killed sistematically the only known tribes in that region that were call "charruas" therefore there is not remaining of Charruas Culture.

He speaks the perfect spanish. Awesome.

Excellent spanish.

@mozmex Now that I could understand...Thanks Mozmex for the clarification.

His natural accent is argentine, but here his Spain's accent is flawless. Trust me, I know. I pay a lot of attention to diction.

so heartbreaking listinging to this

@strokesfan1107 it changed my view of him too, such a good spanish somehow doesn't match him! now i love him even more :)

Some elements of his Latin American background come through in his diction, but overall he is speaking here in a CONTEMPORARY and accurately pronounced--if a bit stilted--Spanish. He does live in Madrid, and as a gifted multi-lingual person, there is no reason to accuse him of affectation.

wow!!! He's good at spanish!!!

I thought he only spoke with the Argentine accent. Here he uses the accent from Spain. Good for him!!!!

He still has a house in Madrid, from what I heard. I think his best friends are also Madrileños, so I guess he's probably spent more time in Spain than Argentina. Pero, definitivamente él suena como un verdadero gato.

Estoy sorprendido tanto con su dominio del español, como con su habilidad de hablar con un acento apropiado para la epoca de las escrituras que esta leyendo.

Viggo:you are something else,I'm also a "mate" fanatic,can't pass one day without it.What's your favorite "yerba brand"?

impressive Spanish fluency he has =) muy bien.

@razzg He can speak spanish because he grew up in Argentina

He spent is childhood in Argentina.

I'm having a little trouble taking your comment seriously. I'm from Dominican Republic (aka La Hispaniola) and my family dates back to hundreds of years. I can tell you, first hand, that there are no natives on this island and all we have left of the Tainos are a few caves dwellings and some trinkets. That's so sad considering they once inhabited every corner of this island. And by the way, I've known since effing grade school that the Spaniards were responsible for their *mass* extinction

Wow speaks great castellano!

O_O ....whoa....

his spanish sounds very good

dam his spanish is perfect. no wonder they got him for Alatriste.

que fácil es juzgar épocas pasadas con nuestra mentalidad actual!

Wow!! Habla en español con acento español!!!

I don't know if he lived in Spain, but he lived in Argentina for several years when he was a kid.

Si estamos a que los Tianos

@PHANTOMSLAYER77 Well...Viggo is speaking Spanish in this video right now, isn't he? And guess what, HE'S AMERICAN! I am American as well, and I speak Spanish, French and Polish. Some fit your stereotype, yes, but a lot of Americans can speak more than one language and are very culturally and socially aware.

My reply was for someone who claimed our accent (Spain's, the original accent) is awful, so I replied it's none of their business as they don't speak like us in the American Spanish speaking countries. And it's a fact their usage of verb tenses is a lot more simplified, just an example of different usages in grammar. As for accents, if you're unaware that there are different accents in the different Spanish speaking countries... what can I say? It's not a secret.

Not just " South America " Argentina :)

Negative comments about his Spanish on this thread display all kinds of ignorance. For anyone who is at least minimally familiar with Spanish as it is spoken in most of Spain, and how it contrasts with the many accents of Latin America, Mr. Mortensen's accent is studiously proper and contemporary.

@musedoom Viendo el video de Vigo leyendo espanol quede maravillado lo habla muy bien. A proposito del comentario de Musedoom, yo soy desendiente de esos tainos asesinados y masacrados en la Hispaniola que gracias a dios ya no se llama asi. Ahorra es Republica Dominicana y Haiti. El nombre original Taino es Quisquella. Y es mentira amigo los tainos no eran crueles para nada , eran pacificos inosentes si se puede decir, la palabra Taino significa "Mansos" los canibales eran los Caribes.

@mejsjalv Te encuentro toda la razón hermano, qué lastima que la gente e Latinoamerica culpe a España por lo que pasó hace 500 años, siendo que España nos dejó una cultura muy rica y bonita.

"English was his first language", excuse me? He grew up with both english (mother and danish (father) and speaks both languages fluently. His spanish is extremely good! Way to go Viggo!

@franciscogarcia-yw7fd

3 ай бұрын

Very good is an understatement. It is flawless.

Me parece muy fuerte que Vigo Mortensen se preste a estos ataques anacrónicos a España. Los anglosajones, franceses y holandeses sólo se hicieron eco de la "brevísima historia de la destrucción de las Indias" de Bartolomé de las Casas de 70 páginas, cuando su obra completa superaba los 15 tomos, peo claro no se trata de contar las bondades de los españoles sino todo lo que pudiera calumniar a una España que dominaba el mundo. Y ahora 500 años despúes continúa la Leyenda negra.

@Nazgul001 Its now part of the US Empire. CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

Porque a mí no se me ha perdido nada en México. Yo me encargo de los problemas de mi casa, los demás que hagan lo mismo.

@Mongoose2210 it sounds pretentious because it's ancient spanish, from the sixteenth century; spanish people don't talk like that now ;)

viggo mortensen lee mejor en español que muchos que presumen.

What happened to his Argentine accent?

Native to Spain, that's what I meant. Argentine don't have this accent.

some people got lucky and were discovered by spaniards.. then got treated like shit for some time but never got considered animals, or hunting trophies. Instead they were baptised and taught not to eat your ennemy or sacrifice kids. Others met the british and in a record time disappeared. call spaniards racists and go see how many cherokees are called mr smith.

@elvispereyra Los ingleses eran mas civilizados porque masacraban a los indios?. O sea, entonces masacrar no es cruel, siempre que se haga con estilo, como lo hacian los ingleses, no? Eso quieres decir?

Señora, no señor. Lee el mensaje weetabix sobre el "horrible acento" de España a eso me refería. Si realmentes has vivido en Madrid y en Asturias y no eres capaz de distinguir esos acentos del de Méjico, qué quieres que te diga. No hay nada que discutir. Y por más que en Canarias o Andalucía seseen y aspiren las eses, como hacen en América, si crees que eso implica que son acentos parecidos, es que no tienes un oído muy fino.

mas de la mitad del territorio de estados unidos pertenecio a españa, todo el territorio que los ingleses descubrieron por el mundo, se encontraban con que antes ya fue descubierto y conquistado por los españoles, por ejmplo, australia. ¡¡ via españa !!

Pero no esta hablando en catalan, es castellano.

En Hispanoamérica la sangre indígena no ha desaparecido. Sin embargo ¿que ha pasado en Norte América?. Un ejemplo claro de esto fue Florida. Hasta que se mantuvo en poder de los españoles se mantuvieron las poblaciones indígenas, pero cuando pasó a manos estadounidenses se acabó todo. Dejen de atacar a España. Los españoles cometieron abusos que eran normales en esa época. Sin embargo fué poca cosa comparado con lo que hicieron los británicos y los estadounidenses en Norteamérica.

This is important. This primary source is 500 years old...and tells us how bad his contemporaries behaved.

@pepelepou

Mantenella y no enmendalla ¿no? No conozco a nadie que diga más de 200 para decir más de 300. Más de 200 implica menos de 300. Al menos en el mundo de los que hablan con propiedad, ya sea en inglés o en español o en alemán, la referencia es el número más alto aproximado. ¿Quieres q te demos un premio por encontrar nombres de autores muertos? Anda y q te diviertas buscando en la wiki.

What are YOU talking about? Don't preach me I'm a native speaker and fyi there's more than 300 million Spanish speakers in America (the continent). Less than 50 million in Europe. Which doesn't mean we speak the same way. Most of those authors you mentioned are dead so I don't think they'll say anything.

Ese no es su acento normal, normalmente habla con un acento Argentino...

si no llega a ser por España...

It is a travesty that the pope gave them permission to do this. The catholic church just dismisses these accounts by saying that some of the previous popes did horrible things not so different then other world leaders.