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| lengua Senior Member United States polyglottery.wordpre Joined 6683 days ago 549 posts - 595 votes  Studies: French, Italian, Spanish, German | Message 25 of 98 30 August 2006 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
According to a fellow here, she's forgotten most of her Japanese. Not sure about French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| georgedick Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6697 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French, Catalan, Latin | Message 26 of 98 03 September 2006 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Add Viggo Mortensen to the list... He's staring in major movie that just
came out in Spain, Alatriste. According to IMDB, he "speaks fluent English, Spanish and Danish, but he also speaks Swedish and Norwegian reasonably well." Here he is being interviewed on a Spanish news program. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 27 of 98 03 September 2006 at 5:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Good call on Mortensen! Even though he's modest about his Swedish, it's apparently good enough that he was the Swedish national hockey team's interpreter at the '80 Olympics.
It's as I suspected with Portman. She probably claims all those languages since she took them in school but probably isn't fluent in anything but her two native tongues. She isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, nor does she have a lot of spare time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 28 of 98 03 September 2006 at 6:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Viggo's Spanish is very good and his accent is Latin American since he spent some of his childhood in Venezuela and Argentina. His fluency in Danish comes from having lived in Denmark (bio).
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| makaveli1989 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6742 days ago 69 posts - 73 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 29 of 98 06 September 2006 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Penélope Cruz speaks Spanish, English and Italian
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| alcina Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6696 days ago 51 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Italian | Message 30 of 98 23 October 2006 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kristin Scott
Thomas speaks English and French - on the basis that England is a monoglot country that means she's a polyglot! :) She lives in Paris and appears in a number of French films. I think her accent is still quite "English" though when I've seen her in French films. Not that I'm an expert! :) Oh..and what about Tchéky Karyo and Jean Reno? (both French and English at least) and Sandra Bullock (English and German) Alcina Edited by alcina on 23 October 2006 at 1:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| duffdude Groupie United Kingdom Joined 7192 days ago 75 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 31 of 98 25 October 2006 at 9:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I just need to point out that the ABC/CBC abbriviations are not only limited to America (ABC) and Canada (CBC).
BBC is also quite frequently used for British Born Chinese. I don't think it is a mainstream term you would hear used by media. But amongst 2nd generation Chinese here, it is quite frequently used! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 32 of 98 11 November 2006 at 3:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Another one to add: Chinese-American actress Lucy Liu. She's fluent in English, Mandarin, and Italian; she also speaks some French and Japanese, which she is apparently still studying. (Her Japanese skills are evident in Kill Bill.)
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