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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[@audreywarren6777]

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!

[@sultanalamri534]

I completely disagree quality over quantity bro it’s better to be fluent in 3 to 4 than to speak 6 or 7 and a lot of them you’re barely B1 in 💀

[@richardaugusta6118]

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

[@lynnm7463]

She has done several films in french.

[@bimokresno]

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.

[@ginocastro5107]

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!

[@saram2147]

Shakira also speaks Catalan I believe

[@ruskisall]

Nobody cares about catalan

[@aaron-damonkassner4715]

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

[@aaron-damonkassner4715]

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

[@christinat.308]

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

[@spiritusIRATUS]

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.

[@seaglass22]

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

[@LauraBCReyna]

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.

[@ginocastro5107]

Agree

[@dartharaneus67]

In the case of Audrey, I don't think the short exemple used for her Spanish really allowed us to say for sure that she was a level 1 and not a 2 or even a 3. But the exemples for her other languages seemed to confirm pretty solidly her level 3 in all of them! In the case of Christopher Lee, we didn't get a video for any of his four level 1 languages. Also, it's difficult to get an accurate reading when someone is doing a rehearsed activity like singing (Italian) or reading (Spanish). His German was hesitant but sounded very good so he could simply have been slow because he was thinking about his answer. As a native French speaker myself, however, I would have given him a 2, not a 3, for his French. Bottom line, I agree with you that Audrey Hepburn should have been first, at least based on the material of this video.

[@realmadridworld1688]

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]

Thanks for sharing! 😊

[@evilqueen90s00s]

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

[@clarics6804]

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

[@wolfiesown]

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.......

[@lucasfernandez9657]

Natalie Portman también habla francés muy bien.

[@solfranco6686]

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]

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

[@luciamolino2868]

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]

​@@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]

@@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]

@@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!

[@jamesstcbsbasinlane9012]

Jodie Fosters French sounded perfect.

[@dartharaneus67]

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?

[@eden19966]

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]

even finnish?

[@eden19966]

@@RizZaTV No. That´s completely different.

[@RizZaTV]

@@eden19966 i know 😁 i thought i ask anyway

[@Quzinqa1122]

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

[@Quzinqa1122]

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

[@piotrpopiel6057]

Shakira also speaks Catalan

[@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

[@Fluentu]

Good choice! 👏

[@jamesbedugraham8056]

An excellent choice indeed.

[@TheCarlScharnberg]

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

[@tanzig84]

Do another list!

[@meeryannah2910]

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

[@Caami199Serranista]

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

[@anah3864]

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

[@Caami199Serranista]

@@anah3864 and I care because...?

[@TheCarlScharnberg]

No, he doesn't.

[@salguggenheim678]

And what about Yul Bryner?

[@vizzyb8400]

Audrey Hepburn could speak multiple languages too

[@kratino]

She was in the video.

[@mtgmarina]

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]

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.

[@shnhkn1]

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

[@eden19966]

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

[@arnaudsemelet6050]

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

[@eden19966]

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

[@jeanlaureaudoynaud4776]

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

[@eden19966]

@@jeanlaureaudoynaud4776 English, please!

[@martinkrajc472]

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

[@samuelfriden]

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?”

[@dianaheinsalu5168]

Christopher waslsh also speaks Austrian

[@danielmedjedovic7068]

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

[@BrokenNoah]

Christopher Lee probably speaks Quenya as well and maybe Black Speech

[@kitbirskovich1838]

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!).

[@clement2780]

which were parents language vs learned?

[@pacifist1360]

I am surprised that Djokovic is not on the list.

[@StuffMadeOnDreams]

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

[@bootsiekeegan4401]

Wow im impressed

[@Fluentu]

Glad it helps! 😊

[@artholyoke]

Christopher Lee has the most amazing life

[@Dlo_Chess1_1]

What’s easy fluency ?

[@pacificprincess5849]

Speaking like a pro

[@ispeakmucho]

Finding fluency easy. Boom

[@musicreader4291]

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

[@ginocastro5107]

Yes... that's right!

[@UncleKeith567]

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

[@ethelberht4750]

How can you include Federer and not Djokovic???

[@nathanaelmini2595]

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

[@Fluentu]

That's great! 😍

[@Quzinqa1122]

👏👏👏👏😊

[@maidacameron4093]

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

[@eden19966]

Not true.

[@KaimanToa]

Viggo also speak elvish

[@jklmnoqr]

Jodie Foster

[@izmirlove1]

Shakira

[@pashaw8380]

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.

[@FNFNFN99KKK]

lol Natalie can not speak Arabic

[@zsuzsannamakai9971]

Peter Ustinov

[@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158]

Yes, perfect Russian and French

[@DaveSmith-jf5px]

Pope John Paul 2 spoke eight languages