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| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5852 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 1 of 8 10 June 2010 at 5:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Chinese, English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, French
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBa3_JNLbF4 Edited by John Smith on 10 June 2010 at 5:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rlf1810 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6150 days ago 122 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, German, Slovak | Message 2 of 8 11 June 2010 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
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She only spoke English the whole time... Even so, by her description or lack thereof of her language ability, it seems she is a beginner in all but English in Chinese.
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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5506 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 3 of 8 11 June 2010 at 6:09am | IP Logged | ||
—Lucy Liu I don't think "a tiny/little bit" should count. I think she would count as a diglot at best. Interview 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5852 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 4 of 8 11 June 2010 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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She's just being modest.
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| rlf1810 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6150 days ago 122 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English*, German, Slovak | Message 5 of 8 11 June 2010 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | ||
One can't help but wonder if you are a fan of hers ;) Have you found a video where she is actually speaking those languages? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6249 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 6 of 8 11 June 2010 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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"a tiny bit" is not modest, it's being honest.
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5766 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 7 of 8 11 June 2010 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not that I believe everything posted on the internet (including in large measure stuff I myself post), but here are some excerpts from her imdb.com biography:
As her family spoke Mandarin Chinese at home, she did not learn English until the age of 5. Graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a degree in Asian languages and cultures. Is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, English, Italian, Spanish and a little Japanese. You can hear her speak Japanese on one of the Kill Bill movies - but that might represent nothing more than rote learning of specific lines. You can also readily see that she is wicked quick with a sword in the same movie, so if you meet her in real life and she tells you that she can speak "x" number of languages fluently, you may want to tread carefully in cross-examing her credentials. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6512 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 8 of 8 11 June 2010 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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imdb.com biographies are fan-written. They cannot be considered a reliable source for information if there are other, primary sources that contradict the statements made in it. They do not come from her; they come from other people misinterpreting her honesty as modesty.
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