Top 10 Celebrities Who Speak Multiple Different Foreign Languages (Other Than English)

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    Do you have a favorite polyglot celebrity? Today, we’ll be looking at ten famous polyglots who will inspire you to learn a new language.
    For this list, we found celebrities who spoke at least four different languages, and ranked them based on how many languages they know and how well they know them.
    Chapters:
    00:00 Introduction
    00:16 Number 10: Tom Hiddleston
    00:56 Number 9: Alicia Vikander
    01:27 Number 8: Roger Federer
    02:05 Number 7: Christoph Waltz
    02:56 Number 6: Jodie Foster
    03:40 Number 5: Natalie Portman
    04:14 Number 4: Shakira
    05:07 Number 3: Audrey Hepburn
    06:11 Number 2: Viggo Mortenson
    07:34 Number 1: Christopher Lee
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Komentáře • 94

  • @audreywarren6777
    @audreywarren6777 Před 9 měsíci +22

    This is the first time I've seen someone rank by fluency in a language. It's incredible! i always tell people it's better to know enough to get a point across than be 100% native in any language. Accents are welcome!

  • @ginocastro5107
    @ginocastro5107 Před 6 měsíci +8

    My favourites were Jodie Foster, Shakira surprised the heck out of me speaking perfect Brazilian Portuguese. Vigo Mortesen is amazing! And surely Christopher Lee was a legendary poliglot!

  • @richardaugusta6118
    @richardaugusta6118 Před 11 měsíci +14

    Jodie Foster’s French knocks me out. She should do an entire film in that language.

    • @lynnm7463
      @lynnm7463 Před 9 měsíci +5

      She has done several films in french.

    • @bimokresno
      @bimokresno Před 7 měsíci

      she went to college in france, she learnt the language when she was a child along with spanish n talian. she did speak some france words in some of her films.

  • @saram2147
    @saram2147 Před rokem +56

    Shakira also speaks Catalan I believe

    • @ruskisall
      @ruskisall Před 9 měsíci

      Nobody cares about catalan

    • @aaron-damonkassner4715
      @aaron-damonkassner4715 Před 7 měsíci +1

      I believe it’s very little. Her ex was from Barcelona and probably knew a little bit.

  • @aaron-damonkassner4715
    @aaron-damonkassner4715 Před 7 měsíci +2

    After seeing this, I would of have thought Audrey would be the top one but Christopher Lee is pretty impressive with all those languages.

  • @seaglass22
    @seaglass22 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Roger Federer, of course, speaks his native tongue: Schwiizerdütsch. Similar to German, but different.

  • @clarics6804
    @clarics6804 Před rokem +12

    And you guys didn’t mention Shakira speaks Catalán as well.. 😬 my fav is Viggo

  • @jamesstcbsbasinlane9012
    @jamesstcbsbasinlane9012 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Jodie Fosters French sounded perfect.

  • @wolfiesown
    @wolfiesown Před 9 měsíci +5

    Very nice overview and nice to see some unexpected polyglots! However, singing in a language or reading a few lines from a paper does not qualify as speaking a language.......

  • @christinat.308
    @christinat.308 Před 2 lety +28

    I don’t know what Tom Hiddleston was speaking after Spanish, but I can assure you that wasn’t Greek haha

    • @spiritusIRATUS
      @spiritusIRATUS Před 9 měsíci +2

      It was ancient Greek with Erasmian pronunciation I think. Still pretty impressive, as most Greek American celebrities like Jennifer Aniston do not speak any Greek at all.

  • @LauraBCReyna
    @LauraBCReyna Před 7 měsíci +4

    I don't know abt giving the top spot to C Lee... he didn't seem all that fluent in some of those langs. I was most impressed with Audrey Hepburn. She seemed to have a deep understanding of, and skill in 5 langs, and she was prob conversational in a 6th. That's impressive.

  • @realmadridworld1688
    @realmadridworld1688 Před rokem +36

    Novak Djokovic speaks Serbian/Croatian, English, Italian, French, conversational German & Spanish and very basic Mandarin & Russian. He's a real polyglot if I've ever seen one.

    • @Fluentu
      @Fluentu  Před rokem +3

      Thanks for sharing! 😊

    • @evilqueen90s00s
      @evilqueen90s00s Před rokem +4

      Serbian and Croatian it's the same language! Just different accent

  • @lucasfernandez9657
    @lucasfernandez9657 Před rokem +15

    Natalie Portman también habla francés muy bien.

  • @dartharaneus67
    @dartharaneus67 Před 9 měsíci +2

    I really like this three levels language classification system. It seems clearer and simpler to me than the more popular CEFR system. Anyone agrees or disagrees or maybe has an opinion on another language classification system altogether?

  • @solfranco6686
    @solfranco6686 Před 2 lety +11

    Viggo Mortensen is Argentinian so that's why his Spanish is fluently and at Argentina, people speaks Italian too like a second language..
    I was living there as a child and for some schools there, we have English, French, Italian and Portuguese classes at school.

    • @eden19966
      @eden19966 Před 2 lety +11

      No, he´s Danish/American, not Argentinian. He only lived in Argentina as a child, as well as in Venezuela and Denmark.

    • @luciamolino2868
      @luciamolino2868 Před rokem +5

      It's true we are pretty close to italian culture but we don't speak italian as a second language in Argentina, it is often taught in schools together with french and english I would rather say. With school classes I don't think it is enough to have Viggo Mortensen language skills btw

    • @vervideosgiros1156
      @vervideosgiros1156 Před rokem +1

      ​@@eden19966 "He only lived in Argentina as a child"... so...? That what it takes: when you learn a language as a kid, it's way easier and you don't forget it much as if you learn a language as an adult!

    • @eden19966
      @eden19966 Před rokem +2

      @@vervideosgiros1156 I opposed to the sentence "He´s argentinian", bc he isn´t. He is danish/american who happened to live a few years in Argentina as a child. I opposed his nationality, not his language.

    • @vervideosgiros1156
      @vervideosgiros1156 Před rokem +1

      @@eden19966 OK, I thought that you're saying that he didn't speak Spanish well because he just lived there when he was a kid. Many monolingual people think it's easier to learn a language as an adult, but it's quite the opposite!

  • @piotrpopiel6057
    @piotrpopiel6057 Před rokem +4

    Shakira also speaks Catalan

  • @tanzig84
    @tanzig84 Před 6 měsíci

    Do another list!

  • @TheCarlScharnberg
    @TheCarlScharnberg Před 5 měsíci +1

    Correction: Viggo wasn't speaking Norwegian, he was speaking Danish. Scandinavians understand each other because their languages are so closely related and similar.

  • @BrokenNoah
    @BrokenNoah Před 3 měsíci

    Christopher Lee probably speaks Quenya as well and maybe Black Speech

  • @eden19966
    @eden19966 Před 2 lety +11

    Viggo Morthensens "norwegian" is DANISH (again), not norwegian. My birth country and mother tongue is swedish, but I speak all scandinavian languages fluently, including Icelandic, so I know for sure.

    • @RizZaTV
      @RizZaTV Před rokem

      even finnish?

    • @eden19966
      @eden19966 Před rokem +1

      @@RizZaTV No. That´s completely different.

    • @RizZaTV
      @RizZaTV Před rokem +1

      @@eden19966 i know 😁 i thought i ask anyway

    • @Quzinqa1122
      @Quzinqa1122 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@RizZaTV🇫🇮 No, because Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language, not a Scandinavian one, and not even an Indo-European one.

    • @Quzinqa1122
      @Quzinqa1122 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @Eden2089 🇧🇻🇩🇰 Yes, I also thought his Norwegian sounded suspiciously much more like Danish. 😂

  • @bootsiekeegan4401
    @bootsiekeegan4401 Před rokem

    Wow im impressed

  • @salguggenheim678
    @salguggenheim678 Před rokem +2

    And what about Yul Bryner?

  • @meeryannah2910
    @meeryannah2910 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Freddie Highmore - English, Spanish, French, Arabic & Portuguese

  • @martinkrajc472
    @martinkrajc472 Před 4 měsíci

    I heard Christopher Lee speaking Czech also and I think Roger Federer speaks Italian too, and also probably knows some Slovak words because of his wife

  • @shingxinhuilinglinglinglin1982

    What I noticed is that, all of them know how to speak FRENCH or GERMAN.
    And I've been studying french for a few months now, I guess choosing french is not a bad choice at all. lol

  • @dianaheinsalu5168
    @dianaheinsalu5168 Před 2 lety +1

    Christopher waslsh also speaks Austrian

  • @kitbirskovich1838
    @kitbirskovich1838 Před rokem

    German operatic tenor Jonas Kaufmann (German, French, Italian, and...?). Hungarian pianist Andras Schiff (Hungarian, German, French, Italian, English, some Japanese). The late great Polish pianist Arthur Rubinstein (heaven only knows what language he did not speak!).

  • @danielmedjedovic7068
    @danielmedjedovic7068 Před měsícem

    I belive Christopher Lee could also speak the black speech from Mordor

  • @shnhkn1
    @shnhkn1 Před 2 lety +6

    please add novak djokovic to this list. also he speaks a few langs fluently

    • @eden19966
      @eden19966 Před 2 lety

      And who is that? Not a well known actor, at all.

    • @arnaudsemelet6050
      @arnaudsemelet6050 Před rokem +6

      @@eden19966 he's literally the best tennis player in the world with Federer and Nadal

    • @eden19966
      @eden19966 Před rokem +2

      @@arnaudsemelet6050 Alright, thanks. My tennis interest is 0. Never heard of him.

    • @jeanlaureaudoynaud4776
      @jeanlaureaudoynaud4776 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@eden19966 Moi non plus, jamais entendu parler de lui. C'est qui ce Novak ?

    • @eden19966
      @eden19966 Před 11 měsíci

      @@jeanlaureaudoynaud4776 English, please!

  • @artholyoke
    @artholyoke Před 5 měsíci

    Christopher Lee has the most amazing life

  • @Caami199Serranista
    @Caami199Serranista Před 9 měsíci +6

    Viggo speaks all the languages with an argentinian accent, argentinian spanish was his first language and is very evident

    • @anah3864
      @anah3864 Před 6 měsíci

      Keep doubling down on the incorrect comments. It doesn’t make you right, it just makes you seem foolish.

    • @Caami199Serranista
      @Caami199Serranista Před 6 měsíci

      @@anah3864 and I care because...?

    • @TheCarlScharnberg
      @TheCarlScharnberg Před 5 měsíci

      No, he doesn't.

  • @samuelfriden
    @samuelfriden Před 6 měsíci

    THE SWEDISH PRONOUNCIATION of ROGER!🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🤩🤩🤩 (I’m swedish as you prob can tell from my reaction) ”SKA VI SES GRABBEN!”🤣 - ”Wanna hang out my boy?”

  • @vizzyb8400
    @vizzyb8400 Před rokem +6

    Audrey Hepburn could speak multiple languages too

    • @kratino
      @kratino Před 8 měsíci +1

      She was in the video.

  • @KaimanToa
    @KaimanToa Před 22 dny

    Viggo also speak elvish

  • @mtgmarina
    @mtgmarina Před 9 měsíci +2

    I really like Tom Hiddleston but that wasn't greek. It was an effort to recite an ancient Greek text but with an English accent. And unfortunately not a successful effort. I have never heard a foreign person speaking Greek successfully and I can't understand why. Every time I hear someone from a foreign country speaking Greek it's like I hear a bizzarre language.

    • @christiandemailly9485
      @christiandemailly9485 Před 5 měsíci

      I can speak Greek fluently, when I am in Greece people ask me if I am from Crete, where I learned it. Can also speak Russian, Italian ,Spanish, German, Not to bad Japanese, Arabic basic Polish, Slovak, Turkish and now I leave in Taiwan so learning Mandarin I also learn Tagalog and as I am French I also speak French.

  • @StuffMadeOnDreams
    @StuffMadeOnDreams Před 7 měsíci

    Dalida and Nana Mouskuri sang in 10-11 languages. Mireille Matthieu is not far away.

  • @pacifist1360
    @pacifist1360 Před 3 měsíci

    I am surprised that Djokovic is not on the list.

  • @Dlo_Chess1_1
    @Dlo_Chess1_1 Před 2 lety +4

    What’s easy fluency ?

  • @nathanaelmini2595
    @nathanaelmini2595 Před rokem

    Ik spreek ja Engels , Nederlands , Duits , Spaans , Italiaans , Frans , Portugees , Zweeds , Hongaars.

  • @UncleKeith567
    @UncleKeith567 Před 8 měsíci

    Damn!
    Mira Sorvino is said to be a polyglot, not sure if that's true.

  • @musicreader4291
    @musicreader4291 Před 7 měsíci

    Romelu Lukaku parle 8 langues : lingala, français, néerlandais, allemand, anglais, espagnol, portugais et italien.

  • @maidacameron4093
    @maidacameron4093 Před 9 měsíci

    Mads Mikkelson speaks English, Dutch, German, French and I think Italian and Spanish.

  • @izmirlove1
    @izmirlove1 Před 2 lety +2

    Shakira

  • @clement2780
    @clement2780 Před 3 měsíci

    which were parents language vs learned?

  • @jklmnoqr
    @jklmnoqr Před měsícem

    Jodie Foster

  • @zsuzsannamakai9971
    @zsuzsannamakai9971 Před 9 měsíci

    Peter Ustinov

  • @pashaw8380
    @pashaw8380 Před 6 měsíci +2

    They are all Americans of EUropean descent. Next time, put a few Asian American celebs as well. America is a melting pot and there is diversity in American people. Asian Americans aren't foreign in the US. If they are, so are these celebs shown in the video. We are all immigrants anyway.

  • @khair101
    @khair101 Před rokem +4

    lol Natalie can not speak Arabic

  • @DaveSmith-jf5px
    @DaveSmith-jf5px Před 6 měsíci

    Pope John Paul 2 spoke eight languages