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 9 of 16 21 December 2011 at 2:58pm | IP Logged |
and here are three more: political leaders and languages, famous multilinguals, language abilities of footballers
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Kyle Corrie Senior Member United States Joined 4828 days ago 175 posts - 464 votes
| Message 10 of 16 21 December 2011 at 3:07pm | IP Logged |
NickJS wrote:
However I think Sandra Bullock is fluent in German and Mila Kunis speaks
Russian, but according to Wikipedia, they were born into multilingual families. |
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Considering that Mila Kunis is Ukrainian, it's probably more appropriate to say that she
speaks English.
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Rivso Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4876 days ago 41 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Dutch, Japanese
| Message 11 of 16 21 December 2011 at 5:54pm | IP Logged |
The prime minister of Australia speaks fluent mandarin
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KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5144 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf)
| Message 12 of 16 23 December 2011 at 10:31am | IP Logged |
^^ Huh? Last time I checked Julia Gillard was Prime Minister :) You mean the Foreign Minister...K Rudd
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wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5238 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 13 of 16 23 December 2011 at 4:11pm | IP Logged |
Guess I'm stuck in the 80s and 90s ... I believe Brooke Shields and Candace Bergen speak French, as well as Molly
Ringwald.
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KSAKSA Groupie Australia Joined 5144 days ago 65 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Gulf)
| Message 14 of 16 24 December 2011 at 6:46am | IP Logged |
I think Belinda Carlisle and Tina Arena moved to France in the 90s and they speak French too.
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Rivso Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4876 days ago 41 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Dutch, Japanese
| Message 15 of 16 24 December 2011 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
KSAKSA wrote:
^^ Huh? Last time I checked Julia Gillard was Prime Minister :) You mean the Foreign Minister...K Rudd |
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Oups sorry I just knew it was some high up australian politician and assumed the prime minister :|my bad
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Saim Pentaglot Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5082 days ago 124 posts - 215 votes Speaks: Serbo-Croatian, English*, Catalan, Spanish, Polish Studies: Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Occitan, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic (Maghribi), French, Modern Hebrew, Ukrainian, Slovenian
| Message 16 of 16 27 December 2011 at 6:22am | IP Logged |
Rivso wrote:
KSAKSA wrote:
^^ Huh? Last time I checked Julia Gillard was Prime Minister :) You mean the Foreign Minister...K Rudd |
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Oups sorry I just knew it was some high up australian politician and assumed the prime minister :|my bad |
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Well, he was the Prime Minister after Labor won the 2007 election. Gillard replaced him as Labor leader in 2010.
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