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| Marieke Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 6496 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 1 of 98 09 August 2006 at 6:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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Can anyone list any actors or actresses who can speak several languages fluently? I can think of two...
- Thekla Reuten (Dutch, English, Italian, German, French) - Mariska Hargitay (English, Hungarian, French, Italian) Add some more! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6578 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 2 of 98 09 August 2006 at 6:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Christopher Lee, one of the most prolific actors in the world, has performed movie roles in many languages. According to his website, he speaks French, Italian, Spanish and German, and "gets by" in Russian, Swedish, and Greek.
He's also an Officier des arts et lettres in France, and an honourary citizen of Casina, Italy. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6719 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 98 09 August 2006 at 9:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Didn't somebody mention Dolph Lundgren recently? And I remember having read that Natalie Portman speaks a lot of languages.
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6578 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 98 09 August 2006 at 10:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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Portman's a native Hebrew and English speaker. She's studied German, French, and Japanese at university; I've no idea if she's fluent in any of them, although she was apparently able to converse with the German crew on the Berlin set of V for Vendetta.
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| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6719 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 98 09 August 2006 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Update: Dolph speaks Swedish, English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese.
This thread mentions Penelope Cruz (Spanish, Italian, French and English), another language for Natalie Portman (some Spanish), Peter Ustinov and six languages (I've found list of eight at Wikipedia: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish fluently, as well as some Turkish and modern Greek) and no less than twelve for Christopher Lee (no list though). Takeshi Kaneshiro can (according to Wikipedia) "speak with varying degrees of fluency in English, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese." 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 6 of 98 10 August 2006 at 2:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Here are all the people mentioned in the first six pages:
1. Thekla Reuten: Dutch, English, Italian, German, French 2. Mariska Hargitay: English, Hungarian, French, Italian 3. Christopher Lee: French, Italian, Spanish and German, "gets by" in Russian, Swedish, and Greek. 4. Natalie Portman: English, Hebrew, German 5. Dolph Lundgren: Swedish, English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese 6. Penelope Cruz: Spanish, Italian, French and English 7. Peter Ustinov: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, some Turkish and modern Greek 8. Takeshi Kaneshiro: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese 9. Karen Mok: Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, English and Italian 10. Peter Coyote: English, German, French and Spanish 11. Monica Bellucci: English, French, and Italian 12. Jackie Chan: Mandarin, Cantonese and English 13. Audrey Hepburn: English, Spanish, French, Dutch/Flemish and Italian 14. Jodie Foster: English, French, Italian 15. Viggo Mortensen: English, Spanish and Danish, some Swedish and Norwegian 16. Lucy Liu: English, Mandarin, and Italian; some French and Japanese 17. Mira Sorvino: English, Mandarin and French 18. Aishvarya Rai: English, Tulu, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi 19. Wang Lee-hom: English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and French. 20. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: English, Yoruba, Italian and Swahili; "gets along” in French 21. Masayori "Masi" Oka: Japanese, English, German, Spanish 22. Sigourney Weaver: English, French and German 23. Ingrid Bergman: English, Swedish, French, German and Italian 24. Mikhail Baryshnikov: Russian, English and French. 25. Andrew Divoff: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Romanian, Catalan, Portuguese and Russian 26. Jennifer Connelly: English, French and Italian. Edited by Raincrowlee on 09 February 2007 at 9:00pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6825 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 98 10 August 2006 at 4:17am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm sure it's really obvious, but what's an "ABC"? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6700 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 8 of 98 10 August 2006 at 4:21am | IP Logged | |||||
American Born Chinese (I think). I hear the term 'ABC' batted around a lot at an Taiwan expat forum I visit so I'm assuming that's what it is. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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