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Haza
Diglot
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United Kingdom
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16 posts - 16 votes
Speaks: English*, French

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15 October 2007 at 4:09pm | IP Logged

Which well-known people speak more than one language fluently? I find this quite interesting because it is so rare to hear people talking in any language other than English on the television nowadays (in the UK I mean!).
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aberfitch1892
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United States
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Speaks: German
Studies: French
Studies: Haitian Creole

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10 November 2007 at 7:58pm | IP Logged

charlize theron-afrikaans
alexis bledel-Spanish
sandra bullock-German (bayerisches dialekt)
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William Camden
Hexaglot
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United Kingdom
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Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French

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11 November 2007 at 2:28am | IP Logged

aberfitch1892 wrote:

charlize theron-afrikaans
alexis bledel-Spanish
sandra bullock-German (bayerisches dialekt)

Sandra Bullock speaks English when interviewed on German TV, according to Wikipedia, but she can follow interview questions in German.
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jazzlover52
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United States
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Studies: French

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30 November 2007 at 11:26pm | IP Logged

The New York Mets had a pitcher on their 1986 championship team, Ron Darling, who is fluent in Chinese and French. His mother is Chinese, his father is French-Candadian, and Darling himself attended Yale University. A bright guy, who is now a New York Mets announcer. (That's baseball, for any non-fans out there.)

Edited by jazzlover52 on 30 November 2007 at 11:26pm
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bushwick
Tetraglot
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Netherlands
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Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch
Studies: French, Japanese

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01 December 2007 at 4:10am | IP Logged

William Camden wrote:

aberfitch1892 wrote:

charlize theron-afrikaans
alexis bledel-Spanish
sandra bullock-German (bayerisches dialekt)

Sandra Bullock speaks English when interviewed on German TV, according to Wikipedia, but she can follow interview questions in German.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10x38SMb-g
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Hencke
Tetraglot
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Spain
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Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, English^C2, Spanish
Studies: Mandarin
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01 December 2007 at 8:19am | IP Logged

bushwick wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10x38SMb-g

She could have fooled me, if I hadn't know who she was. I am not a native German speaker, and fooling me does not necessarily mean there is no foreign accent at all, but I fancy I'd pick it up unless it was fairly slight. Can any native German speakers comment please, I'd be very interested to know. And let's make that link clickable as well while we're at it.

Edited by Hencke on 01 December 2007 at 8:25am
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zigzag
Diglot
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Germany
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Speaks: German*, English
Studies: Spanish

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01 December 2007 at 9:01am | IP Logged

Hencke wrote:

bushwick wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10x38SMb-g

Can any native German speakers comment please, I'd be very interested to know.

Wow! She almost had no accent!
She did get some genders wrong. In the beginning she wants to say: My speech lies there.... unfortunately she says: My language lies there...
But in general I'm totally impressed by her speech.
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bushwick
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Netherlands
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Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch
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01 December 2007 at 9:18am | IP Logged

Hencke wrote:

bushwick wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s10x38SMb-g

I'm a native German speaker and I was really impressed seing it.
as zigzag said, she should have said 'rede' instead of 'sprache', which just sounds weird.
but a really really great German + the bavarian accent which sounds charming when she's speaking it.

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