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| krog Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 5861 days ago 146 posts - 152 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Latin | Message 25 of 29 19 January 2009 at 4:51pm | IP Logged |
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Bond speaks Arabic briefly in The Spy Who Loved Me.
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| Akbaboy Hexaglot Newbie United States Joined 5600 days ago 35 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Cantonese, Catalan, French Studies: Mandarin, Spanish, Dutch | Message 26 of 29 19 January 2009 at 5:03pm | IP Logged |
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Just so you know, 向左走·向右走 said in Cantonese is: Hoeng Zo Zau, Hoeng Jau Zau. In Mandarin, its said: Xiang Zuo Zou, Xiang You Zou. I am advanced at Cantonese and I am basiclly learning Mandarin. Edited by Akbaboy on 19 January 2009 at 5:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aqeeliz Tetraglot Newbie Pakistan aqeeliz.com Joined 5558 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Punjabi, Urdu*, English, Hindi Studies: Spanish | Message 27 of 29 04 March 2009 at 10:03am | IP Logged |
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I have come across many polyglot characters in books and movies, but I can't really remember them all right now. These are the ones I recently encountered:
- Dr. Daniel Jackson in Stargate (and tv show Stargate SG-1) is shown to be fluent in around 23 languages. - Klatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still speaks "alien", English and Chinese / Japanese. - If I am not forgetting, the main character in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons & Da Vinci Code was also a linguist (or something similar). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| arclight Diglot Newbie United States arclight.livejournal Joined 6641 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish | Message 28 of 29 06 March 2009 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
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In the movie Gaudi Afternoon, the main character (played by Judy Davis) is an American living in Barcelona who translates Latin American fiction into English for a living. In the movie itself, she speaks English, Spanish, and Catalan, and it is inferred that she also knows German, Swedish, and others as well.
Going along with the James Bond theme, it is revealed in You Only Live Twice that Bond was some sort of Asian Studies major in his university days and could speak very good Japanese. There are many multilingual characters in the German film Im Juli and many languages are spoken. These include but are not limited to: German, Turkish, English, Romanian, and at least one of the Balkan languages, most likely Serbian or Croatian. In Europa Europa, the main character speaks German, Hebrew, Polish and Russian. Edited by arclight on 06 March 2009 at 8:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6084 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 29 of 29 06 March 2009 at 11:27pm | IP Logged |
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George Clooney plays a character who speaks Arabic and Farsi in Syriana, though there is some doubt about the quality of his language. I don't think Clooney actually learned the languages for the role.
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