Celebrities who speak foreign languages

TheKiwiBexTheKiwiBex Posts: 9
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Somehow today I ended up watching Youtube clips of celebrities speaking foreign languages (of course, I'm talking about those for whom English is their native language). Like Sandra Bullock speaking German.

Anyway, got me wondering what other celebs speak languages other than English...I know Mila Kunis speaks Russian, and Bradley Cooper speaks French. Any others?
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  • manderleymanderley Posts: 2,267
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    Kirstin Scott Thomas speaks fluent French.
  • manderleymanderley Posts: 2,267
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    Peter Capaldi and Ken Stott speak Italian.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,488
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    Bradley Cooper speaks fluent french.
  • CryolemonCryolemon Posts: 8,670
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    Sue Perkins has shown on bakeoff before that she speaks pretty good French.
  • milliejomilliejo Posts: 2,230
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    Peter Andre - Greek
    Imogen Thomas - Welsh
    Ulrika - Swedish
    Sandy Toksvig - Danish
    Aled Jones - Welsh
    David Beckham - Italian
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    Christopher lee speaks Italian,french,german,spanish,swedish,russian and greek.
  • Iqbal_MIqbal_M Posts: 4,079
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    milliejo wrote: »
    Peter Andre - Greek
    Imogen Thomas - Welsh
    Ulrika - Swedish
    Sandy Toksvig - Danish
    Aled Jones - Welsh
    David Beckham - Italian

    Not trying to nit pick, but can Welsh (I'm not Welsh by the way) be considered a foreign language as per the thread title? But, if you are talking about celebs that talk more than one language there are a few:

    Nick Clegg - German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, English
    Fernando Alonso - English, Spanish, Italian
    Sabine Lisicki - German, English, Polish
    Gareth Bale - English, Welsh, Spanish
  • Red22Red22 Posts: 2,377
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    Joseph Gordon-Levitt speaks French, there's youtube videos of him even singing in French :D
  • DemizdeeroolzDemizdeeroolz Posts: 3,821
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    milliejo wrote: »
    Peter Andre - Greek
    Imogen Thomas - Welsh
    Ulrika - Swedish
    Sandy Toksvig - Danish
    Aled Jones - Welsh
    David Beckham - Italian

    Ulrika also speaks German and French. She presented Eurovision in 1998 and I was impressed by her multilingual skills.
  • Jimmy ConnorsJimmy Connors Posts: 117,524
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    Davina McCall .... French
    Serena Williams .... French & Italian
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 10,188
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    Abz from 5ive and Big Brother speaks fluent urban, ("MLE").
  • Dai13371Dai13371 Posts: 8,071
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    milliejo wrote: »
    Peter Andre - Greek
    Imogen Thomas - Welsh
    Ulrika - Swedish
    Sandy Toksvig - Danish
    Aled Jones - Welsh
    David Beckham - Italian

    Id say, except for Beckham and possible Andre, (depending on his parents viewpoint), English would be the second, or foreign language, in the cases above.
  • lexi22lexi22 Posts: 16,394
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    Viggo Mortensen - fluent Danish and Spanish plus reasonable French and Italian. Also writes (poetry) in 3 languages.
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    Patrice Evra speaks around six different languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian, Senegal, Korean

    I'd say most Welsh celebrities can speak Welsh

    Ryan Gosling speaks French....yes, he really is going for the "Most Attraactive Man in the World" award isn't he :o
  • grumpyscotgrumpyscot Posts: 11,343
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    HM Queen Elizabeth II speaks fluent French.
  • deivu74deivu74 Posts: 3,001
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    The Aussie prime minister (Kevin Rudd) speaks fluent Mandarin.
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    Singer John Grant speaks German, Russian, Spanish and French plus some Swedish, Danish and Icelandic.

    Oscar winner Christoph Waltz speaks German, French and English (German is his native language).
  • Brighton BhelleBrighton Bhelle Posts: 723
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    Michael Fassbinder speaks German.
  • woot_whoowoot_whoo Posts: 18,030
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    Mila Kunis's first language is Russian.
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    doesnt eddie izzard speak several?
  • pfgpowellpfgpowell Posts: 5,347
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    Michael Fassbinder speaks German.

    Michael Fassbinder is German. English is his 'foreign' language except that it isn't because he was brought up bi-lingually.
  • milliejomilliejo Posts: 2,230
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    Iqbal_M wrote: »
    Not trying to nit pick, but can Welsh (I'm not Welsh by the way) be considered a foreign language as per the thread title? But, if you are talking about celebs that talk more than one language there are a few:

    Nick Clegg - German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, English
    Fernando Alonso - English, Spanish, Italian
    Sabine Lisicki - German, English, Polish
    Gareth Bale - English, Welsh, Spanish

    Welsh is considered to be a country, with it's own language..The same way French and Gaelic are foreign languages...
  • milliejomilliejo Posts: 2,230
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    grumpyscot wrote: »
    HM Queen Elizabeth II speaks fluent French.

    Elizabeth I spoke fluent French, Latin, German, Greek, Welsh, Italian, Spanish
  • vauxhall1964vauxhall1964 Posts: 10,334
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    pfgpowell wrote: »
    Michael Fassbinder is German. English is his 'foreign' language except that it isn't because he was brought up bi-lingually.

    No, Michael Fassbender's German is rather shaky, he admits as much: he grew up in Ireland not speaking much German. In Inglorious Basterds he had to really practice his German hard

    http://www.ifc.com/fix/2009/08/michael-fassbender-2

    Jodie Foster's French is fluent as she went to a bilingual school..
    Natalie Portman speaks Hebrew, not surprising given she's an Israeli citizen.
    Dara O'Brien speaks fluent Irish (he started off on Irish language TV).
    Audrey Hepburn spoke perfect Dutch: she grew up there before the War.
    Sian Lloyd speaks Welsh fluently
  • vauxhall1964vauxhall1964 Posts: 10,334
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    milliejo wrote: »
    Welsh is considered to be a country, with it's own language..The same way French and Gaelic are foreign languages...

    Welsh is hardly 'foreign' to this country: it's been here centuries longer than English! And Scots Gaelic isn't 'foreign' to Britain either. It's an indigenous language of our country.
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