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| Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6248 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes  14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish | Message 9 of 24 01 December 2007 at 9:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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Her accent is definitely very close to native, though to a careful listener it becomes clear that her language has probably become somewhat 'rusty'.
And I would like to add that Sandra Bullock comes from about the same part in Germany as my humble self, and the German she speaks has a FRANCONIAN twange to it, not a BAVARIAN one. To the untrained ear these dialects might seem the same, but in fact they're different dialects. She speaks German like someone from Franconia, not surprising since her roots lie in Nuremberg (I believe)... Edited by Gilgamesh on 01 December 2007 at 9:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Nea Vanille Diglot Newbie Korea, SouthRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6171 days ago 28 posts - 48 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC1 Studies: Korean | Message 10 of 24 20 January 2008 at 5:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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Also very impressed with Sandra Bullock. She got some of the grammar wrong and the "Sprache" mistake in the beginning is quite embarrassing, but apart from that, wow. If it hadn't been for the grammar mistakes she could have passed for a native. Edited by Nea Vanille on 20 January 2008 at 5:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Walshy Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6948 days ago 335 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German | Message 11 of 24 20 January 2008 at 6:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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Is it an ordinary German Redewendung to say "da liegt meine Rede"? The obvious translation for this is "I'm speechless", right?
I thought it was funny how she said that "... the public is so tolerant that even people like me have a chance". She's a hot rich white woman, of course she has a chance! Edited by Walshy on 21 January 2008 at 10:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5853 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 24 26 September 2009 at 1:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
I listened to the video of Sandra Bullock speaking German. That's authentic German, so she should have lived in a German environment for some period of time. Two times in this video she uses an article of the wrong gender, so these are small grammar faults. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 26 September 2009 at 1:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5915 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 13 of 24 26 September 2009 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Natalie Portman is half Israeli and fluent in Hebrew.
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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6966 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 14 of 24 26 September 2009 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Christopher lambert , american actor, speaks English and french
Ines Sastre , Spanish actress , speaks Spanish,french, English , Italian Giovanna Mezzogiorno , Italian actress speaks Italian french Spanish English Jennifer Lopez spaeaks English and Spanish Ben Gazzara English and Italian Josè Mourinho portuguese coach of Inter Football club speaks a very good Italian,he speaks also Spanish and English . Zlatan Ibrahimovic soccer player , swedish, English,croatian , Italian, Spanish 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5992 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 15 of 24 26 September 2009 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I remember being very inspired as a kid when i read somewhere that a certain astronaut spoke 5 languages. I can't remember exactly who it was, but through google i've just found:
Kathryn Sullivan "speaks 5 languages" Julie Payette "is fluent in French and English, and can converse in Spanish, Italian, Russian and German." Maybe they're not as famous as Hollywood actors, but when i was a kid, i couldn't decide what was cooler...being an astronaut, or speaking 5 or 6 languages ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Doghouse Reilly Newbie United States Joined 5574 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* | Message 16 of 24 06 October 2009 at 2:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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Regarding the "Sprache" versus "Rede" comments: I was under the impression that she was making a joke, saying that she "left her language (Sprache) at her seat. And therefore she had to speak in German instead.
Am I the only one who interpreted it this way? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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