The Greek part he recited is from the Ancient Greek tragedy Electra. The pronunciation was odd, if there weren’t subtitles I wouldn’t understand it was Greek 😂
On a related note, it's interesting how in the more recent clip he has a strong American accent when speaking German compared to his original strong Austrian accent when he was younger.
I didnt realize Alexis Beldel spoke Spanish so well! Had no idea her father is Argentinian. I could listen to Daniel Bruhl speak all the languages all day, every day.
I appreciate this video series as a lover of languages/former linguistics student, but I do want to add a little correction! The language Paul Mescal speaks is Irish, or Gaeilge as it's known in Irish. "Gaelic" refers mostly to Scottish Gaelic, or to the Goidelic languages as a whole. But Irish is the language of Ireland in the same way English is the language of England. Go raibh maith agat for the series as a whole, though!
I don't speak Irish, but I have heard it spoken a few times. Was that guy speaking clearly or did he have an accent? It sounded to me like someone used to speaking English switching to heavily accented Irish.
@@Elriuhilu I'm learning Irish, so I can't comment on it from a native speaker's perspective. I would say he had some hesitancies, like he was translating in his head from English rather than thinking in Irish. His accent was fairly good imo, but, again, I'm not a native speaker haha. There are some tricky bits that he sounded a bit iffy? on, like in Irish you change the pronunciation of a consonant depending on the vowels around it. If there's an a/o/u on either side then you make a "w" when you say the consonant, but if there's e/i then you make a "y" sound. It's hard to do when your first language isn't Irish, and I definitely have no place to criticise him for it because I struggle with it a lot. He didn't always get the extra sound, basically. On the whole, he sounded like either he speaks English as a first language and has studied Irish separately or that his first language is Irish and that he doesn't use it much anymore so it's got rusty. If someone with any more Irish speaking experience sees this and chimes in, they're welcome to correct me, but that's how it sounds to me! edit: based on some googling and relistening to the clip, he is more than likely a native English speaker who has learnt some Irish at school, but also studied it outside to a certain extent. His accent and disfluencies are evident, but he did a very good job - it's a hard language to learn. It's got like the hardest parts of all langauges: grammatical genders, irregular conjugations, rare sounds, a daunting spelling system... but it's also really beautiful and worth learning in spite/because of all that! I certainly couldn't have kept that interview going for so long and I've been learning on and off for about three years now.
@@rosehipowl Thanks for the detailed response :) I couldn't be sure, but I've found I have a bit of an ear for languages and it seemed a bit different from how I remembered it. It could also just have been a regional variation. My first language is Serbian, so I sometimes forget that genders and cases are more abstract and unintuitive for English speakers. Serbian has three grammatical genders and seven cases, three plurals per noun depending on number, two versions of many verbs to denote if you've completed the action the verb describes (also gendered verb conjugation), plus it's written in Cyrillic script, several letters sound indistinguishable to English speakers, there are no proper articles and word order in sentences isn't fixed. Also Serbian is somewhat tonal, with pitch accents, although how much varies by region and dialect.
Christopher Lee speaking German sounds like he's about to cobble an army together from nothing and declare war on us all and there is absolutely jack shit we can do to stop him.
Fun fact, Arnie didn't voice himself in the German dubs of the Terminator movies because Austrian accents aren't considered very intimidating. It's like how Americans view Canadian accents, it would've been too humorous to the audience.
The name in Irish for its language is "Gaeilge", so it's easy to understand where that would come from. But it's a common misunderstanding in the English-speaking world that Gaeilge = Gaelic.
Yes, I reacted to that too. In the beginning of the video Arnold S is said to speak "German", but in a quote at the end it says that he speaks "Austrian". Why the difference when he speaks the same? 🇩🇪 🇦🇹
So when I searched for clips of each language I used the best ones I found, and the one that says Austrian said he was speaking Austrian so I added it (Also google said he spoke German and Austrian)
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Regarding Arnold- google told me he spoke German and Austrian and RUclips told me the same I’m sorry 😭
This is the most American thing I’ve read in my life - you didn’t clock that Austrians speak German? I’m FINISHED 😂
@@testadalord01432 High and Low German perhaps?
Don't worry, I myself speak Murican and British!
Tom Hiddleston apparently learnt how to say "well, Loki is the brother of Thor..." in every language.
The Greek part he recited is from the Ancient Greek tragedy Electra. The pronunciation was odd, if there weren’t subtitles I wouldn’t understand it was Greek 😂
🤣🤣
Arnold speaks Austrian much like I speak fluent Canadian.
On a related note, it's interesting how in the more recent clip he has a strong American accent when speaking German compared to his original strong Austrian accent when he was younger.
Tbf, as an Austrian I can speak in a dialect so thick, no German will ever understand me.
I loved hearing Christopher Lee's unmistakable voice speaking French!
Interesting that Schwarzenegger speaks first in German and then (at the very end) in Austrian, and yet it's the same language. 😂😉
I didnt realize Alexis Beldel spoke Spanish so well! Had no idea her father is Argentinian. I could listen to Daniel Bruhl speak all the languages all day, every day.
Yep! He also speaks Spanish.
@@aaron-damonkassner4715 I'm aware! I love him speaking Spanish.
Daniel Brühl also speaks Spanish as well. His mom is from Spain.
Amazing that LOTR cast two men that are the most interesting humans ever in Christoper Lee and Viggio Mortensen
I appreciate this video series as a lover of languages/former linguistics student, but I do want to add a little correction! The language Paul Mescal speaks is Irish, or Gaeilge as it's known in Irish. "Gaelic" refers mostly to Scottish Gaelic, or to the Goidelic languages as a whole. But Irish is the language of Ireland in the same way English is the language of England. Go raibh maith agat for the series as a whole, though!
I don't speak Irish, but I have heard it spoken a few times. Was that guy speaking clearly or did he have an accent? It sounded to me like someone used to speaking English switching to heavily accented Irish.
@@Elriuhilu I'm learning Irish, so I can't comment on it from a native speaker's perspective. I would say he had some hesitancies, like he was translating in his head from English rather than thinking in Irish. His accent was fairly good imo, but, again, I'm not a native speaker haha. There are some tricky bits that he sounded a bit iffy? on, like in Irish you change the pronunciation of a consonant depending on the vowels around it. If there's an a/o/u on either side then you make a "w" when you say the consonant, but if there's e/i then you make a "y" sound. It's hard to do when your first language isn't Irish, and I definitely have no place to criticise him for it because I struggle with it a lot. He didn't always get the extra sound, basically. On the whole, he sounded like either he speaks English as a first language and has studied Irish separately or that his first language is Irish and that he doesn't use it much anymore so it's got rusty.
If someone with any more Irish speaking experience sees this and chimes in, they're welcome to correct me, but that's how it sounds to me!
edit: based on some googling and relistening to the clip, he is more than likely a native English speaker who has learnt some Irish at school, but also studied it outside to a certain extent. His accent and disfluencies are evident, but he did a very good job - it's a hard language to learn. It's got like the hardest parts of all langauges: grammatical genders, irregular conjugations, rare sounds, a daunting spelling system... but it's also really beautiful and worth learning in spite/because of all that! I certainly couldn't have kept that interview going for so long and I've been learning on and off for about three years now.
@@rosehipowl Thanks for the detailed response :)
I couldn't be sure, but I've found I have a bit of an ear for languages and it seemed a bit different from how I remembered it. It could also just have been a regional variation.
My first language is Serbian, so I sometimes forget that genders and cases are more abstract and unintuitive for English speakers. Serbian has three grammatical genders and seven cases, three plurals per noun depending on number, two versions of many verbs to denote if you've completed the action the verb describes (also gendered verb conjugation), plus it's written in Cyrillic script, several letters sound indistinguishable to English speakers, there are no proper articles and word order in sentences isn't fixed. Also Serbian is somewhat tonal, with pitch accents, although how much varies by region and dialect.
Sophia Loren is literally Italian lmfao
Christopher Lee speaking German sounds like he's about to cobble an army together from nothing and declare war on us all and there is absolutely jack shit we can do to stop him.
shut up
Celebrity : *speaking in a language I do not know a word of, but in a confident animated tone*
Me : *nodding* hmm good point
Terminator is speaking German - there's no such language as "Austrian" (as much as our Austrian friends would like to pretend otherwise).
Fun fact, Arnie didn't voice himself in the German dubs of the Terminator movies because Austrian accents aren't considered very intimidating. It's like how Americans view Canadian accents, it would've been too humorous to the audience.
Holy shit Daniel Bruhl's French sounds native
Daniel Brühl is quite impressive
Can you do a version of actors/actresses that speak arabic from different countries?
I have a few Arabic speakers on my list but I can't find videos of them 😭 but when I find some more I'll be sure to make that video!
Hee first two videos have Mena Moussad and Rami Malek speaking Arabic.
Arnold speaks German and Austrian
paul mescal is irish. gaelic is scottish. its just irish
Google and RUclips told me it was Gaelic 😭
The name in Irish for its language is "Gaeilge", so it's easy to understand where that would come from. But it's a common misunderstanding in the English-speaking world that Gaeilge = Gaelic.
Yvonne Strahovski and Caroline Wozniacki speak Polish, you should add them
I have them added to the list!
A neta da atriz brasileira Maria Gladys falando vovozinha 🥹🤏🏼
Of course Arnold can speak German
That’s was not Greek 😂
austrian language? :)))
Yes, I reacted to that too.
In the beginning of the video Arnold S is said to speak "German", but in a quote at the end it says that he speaks "Austrian". Why the difference when he speaks the same? 🇩🇪 🇦🇹
So when I searched for clips of each language I used the best ones I found, and the one that says Austrian said he was speaking Austrian so I added it (Also google said he spoke German and Austrian)
@@internetaddict104 He is speaking German with a very Austrian accent (or dialect?), so both are correct.
@@internetaddict104 ok but austrian is not a language.
@@maikusch yeah I know that now 😅 google told me it was so I went with it, my bad