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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 73 of 98 08 August 2008 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
It doesn't seem that fluent though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6438 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 74 of 98 09 August 2008 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
Yes - many of the actors at my high school. As far as I know, none of them are widely known, though at least a few have had roles on soap operas and so forth. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6084 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 75 of 98 09 August 2008 at 3:17am | IP Logged | ||
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A lot of these actors you see speaking on screen have received just a few months/weeks of private tutoring and are trained to look fluent. Read their biographies. I wouldn't judge their abilities from their acting alone.
The only real "prominent" polyglot that I'm aware of (I don't exactly look for them) is Nastassja Kinski (German, English, French, Italian and Russian, according to Wiki). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Licel Triglot Newbie Mexico Joined 6043 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, FrenchB2 Studies: Italian | Message 76 of 98 21 September 2008 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know if it's been mentioned but Camilla Belle speaks English, portuguese and Spanish
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| dutos Newbie Argentina Joined 5912 days ago 35 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* | Message 77 of 98 21 September 2008 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Camila Belle - it always helps to have a parent that speaks the language. I bet she has an accent though, when she speaks Portuguese, if she's live in the US for a while.
I'll check it out tomorrow and report back. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dutos Newbie Argentina Joined 5912 days ago 35 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English* | Message 78 of 98 21 September 2008 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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George W. Bush -- Hahah, that one has probably already been said.
Even though Spanish is not my first language, listening to GW Bush speak Spanish *cracks me up.* However, I do applaud him for at least trying to learn. Gwenyth Paltrow -- One time I was watching a move with a girl from Costa Rica, and she swore that GP has ZERO accent when she said a few Spanish lines in a movie. I can't remember the name of the movie though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Razekial Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6019 days ago 13 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 79 of 98 26 September 2008 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Masiela Lusha, who played George's Daughter Carmen on the American TV show George Lopez is a native Albanian who speaks four languages. The wikipedia article on her lists that she has lived in Austria, Hungary, Albania, and America, and although it doesn't implicitly state the languages from those areas are the 4 she speaks, I think it's somewhat safe to assume that she speaks Albanian, German, Hungarian, and English.
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6271 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 80 of 98 03 February 2009 at 9:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I posted earlier that I thought actors have some advantages in language learning. I think that is generally true. Films are not necessarily a good guide to their foreign language fluency, though, as most performers can probably memorise quite a few lines of dialogue in a foreign language and parrot it, without really knowing the language and perhaps not even understanding the words they are saying.
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