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| georgedick Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6697 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian, French, Catalan, Latin | Message 57 of 98 04 November 2007 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Her best known films in the US now are probably the Bourne Identity series! In which she also spoke great English... :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| sarguy Groupie United States Joined 6564 days ago 59 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 58 of 98 10 November 2007 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Sarah Chalke from the tv show "Scrubs" apparently speaks German and French quite fluently. She attended a kind of immersion-based grade school and high school if I recall.
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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 59 of 98 28 November 2007 at 6:35am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Edward G. Robinson, born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Romania, into a Jewish family. His first language was Yiddish and he may also have known Romanian. When his family moved to the USA he learned English and contrived to lose his Yiddish accent, whereas his brothers retained strong accents to the end of their lives. Robinson learned other languages, I am not sure which ones, but a TV documentary about him included a scene where he was shooting a film in Italy and was speaking Italian to cast and crew members.
He seems to be a particularly good example of someone whose acting and linguistic abilities were intertwined. Managing to learn English with a native accent allowed him to get into Hollywood (I think he might have done some acting in Yiddish theatre before that). It also allowed him to take advantage of the arrival of sound. In contrast, Bela Lugosi was never able to shed his accent and he became typecast. Edited by William Camden on 28 November 2007 at 7:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| bela_lugosi Hexaglot Senior Member Finland Joined 6453 days ago 272 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English, Finnish*, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish Studies: Russian, Estonian, Sámi, Latin | Message 60 of 98 22 December 2007 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
True, but he was one hell of a good actor! 8) I remember hearing about a Finnish actor, who could speak at least 5 languages: Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian and a fifth one (probably a Sámi language). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| moisa Triglot Newbie Brazil Joined 6674 days ago 23 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: French | Message 61 of 98 02 February 2008 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I heard Jodie Foster can speak mandarin and french. A french speaker and I saw her speaking in french in a making of and my friend told me she speaks like a french from Paris, no foreign accent at all. Edited by moisa on 02 February 2008 at 2:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 62 of 98 03 February 2008 at 2:39am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| Mikko Newbie Finland Joined 6127 days ago 15 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Finnish* | Message 63 of 98 15 February 2008 at 11:54am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Maybe not actor but an actress. Irina Björklund speaks fluent Swedish, Finnish, French and English. And also Russian and Spanish to some extent. Here she is speaking English. On her MySpace page you can listen to her singing in English, French and Russian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 64 of 98 04 May 2008 at 12:00am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It was also mentioned earlier in this thread that he was the Swedish national hockey team's interpreter at the '80 Olympics, so if Swedish is really his weakest language, as the list suggests, I'm really impressed! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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