Sandra Bullock has actually both US and German citizenship. Her mother was German and she lived in Germany in her childhood. She was raised in Nürnberg, and that is also why she speaks with a slight franconian dialect.
You also get on her good side by organizing the local sausages from Nuernberg. They are not available in the US for some strange reason. You have to smuggle them in. She loves them.
Yes, her pronunciation is very good, but she did make one mistake that makes it clear her native language is English (can also happen to native German speakers who have lived in an English-speaking country for a while). She wanted to say that her speech (ie, the words that she had written to say on the podium) was lying there on the floor, but she actually said "my language is lying on the floor there". But it makes sense if you speak English, because "sprechen" is speak and "Sprache" is the noun form from that verb...but it doesn't mean "speech" in German, as it does in English, but rather "language."
@@RKB74 I thought that was intentional because she wanted to express that she did not speak the language for a very long time. In this case saying "my language is lying on the floor" may be a bit nonstandard but shows that she really knows german
@@RKB74 but she is native speaker for english and german, a true bilingual, living and growing up in germany for 12 years. so her mistake seems more likely to be the way most of her life after the 12 years in germany she maybe did not speak german much
Sandra Bullock actually has a German accent. Her mother is German and she grew up in Nuremberg until she was 12 years old. Therefore, she has a slight Franconian accent.
Yeah, but you can hear he didn't speak Italian for a long time, you know, you can hear he was thinking in English translating in Italian, he had a good vocabulary, a good pronunciation and a good accent, but the construction of sentences is simply not Italian. For example he said "fare ispirazione per loro" but it should be "essere d'ispirazione per gli altri", he said "è molto importante fare le cose che sono più grandi di te stesso" that basically means nothing in Italian etc. this happens because he speak in English, with Italian words, but in English.
Cha Du-ri was born in Frankfurt and grew up there. So, yes, he is a native speaker. His father Cha Bum-kun played for Eintracht Frankfurt when he was born.
I love Jodie's French, even though she has that metropolitan French accent. Her skills are perfect. Timothee also has a great rhythm and accent. My ears bend to understand them though. I have lost so much of my European French, that I struggle to understand every nuance of the language. It's much easier for me to understand Canadians speaking French. The nasal vowels are clearer to the ear.
we should never be ashamed of not necessarily speaking a foreign language perfectly. The most important thing will always be to try, it shows people that you are interested in them. And what could be more gratifying than seeing a face light up when a few words, even awkwardly pronounced, are said. Take care, have fun
Sandra Bullock speaks a bit of a Franconian dialect, as she grew up in Nuremberg. And you notice that she doesn't speak German so often, because she uses “Sprache” instead of “Rede”, which both mean “speech”. But the first one refers to language or voice, while the second is a prepared monologue.
I think that was the joke/ice breaker tho like "oh I lost my language (referring to english) on the floor, so forgive any mistakes I might make during the speech" since she's more comfortable in english nowadays and used to do her speeches for american audiences🙈thats why they laughed too
Will Ferrell is married to a Swede just like they said in the video and they have a summerhouse in Sweden so he´s here every summer around Midsommar. Also the actress Geena Davis (google her young kids, she was one of the characters in Thelma and Louise) speaks really good Swedish, she was an exchange student here in her young adulthood and was in a relationship with a Swedish guy and almost stayed here if i remember correctly.
Also, when she worked (and was in a relationship) with Renny Harlin, who is from Finland, they used to speak Swedish on set when they didn't want others to know what they were talking about.
The french are so hyper critical of foreigners speaking their language I find. I have never tried Swedish but every time I try to practice with native speakers of italian, Spanish and german they are so forgiving and happy I am learning their language! I am most proficient in French in fact and am criticized most by French speakers.
Swedes are also very forgiving and happy when you try to speak Swedish, but almost all Swedes switch to English if we hear you are trying, cause is the core of Swedish culture not to embarrass anyone, basically all of our behaviors stem from that core value. We don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. So foreginers usually have trouble practicing Swedish as so many Swedes switch over to English right away in consideration. If you want to speak Swedish to a Swede you have to tell them to please speak Swedish back so you can practice, otherwise they will just switch to Eng.
I don't think you should see this as criticism, it is just an observation, that's what was asked of her here. And in general, if a french person corrects you when you practice, don't see it as a critic either, most (I cannot speak for all the french assholes) french people would do that to help you learn the proper french, not to pull you down but just because we know how hard it is and that's also what we would do for children learning.
Some people simply don't have the maturity to be corrected so they can improve and prefer to wallow into their mistakes. In France that's not the case. Children are encouraged from a young age to try and do things properly.
So true about speaking with others, because you may know how to say something but if you don’t understand the other party, you may not be able to respond properly. If you don’t speak with others, you may only understand the most proper form of a reply to your phrase, which is hard to find outside of language learning software since most people use colloquialisms , slangs, and shortcuts.
i couldn't help but laugh at will speaking swedish, not just because of the delivery but also because of the grammar. He said it as if he was directing the message to one person (DU är så DUKTIG! DU är STARK!) when it's actually directed at a group of people (NI är så DUKTIGA! NI är STARKA!)😂
English used to have different words for you as a group ("you"), and you as an individual ("thou"), but nowadays is just the more formal (and shorter) you for everything. Same with "the" for everything in English whereas there used to be quite a bit more complicated than that.
@@RobertClaeson Isn't that kind of the point with the comment? Grammar is different in alot of languages, just translating every word doesn't make it right
Sandra Bullock has a German mother and lived in Germany for the first 12 years. She has a Franconian accent. By the way, Leonardo Dicaprio's mother is also German. Actually, many US actors and singers have German ancestors, but because of German history they prefer not to bring it up. For example Jodie Forster, Taylor Swift,...
Don't forget Bruce Willis ... who not only had a german mother but also was born there. Or others where born in Germany bc the parents did military service ... like Martin Lawrence or Reggie Watts
I still learning german and for me of course is hard , even though i know the basic german , as i know portuguese and spanish i had not some much problems with Italian
(Simplified) Portugese, spanish, italian and french are romanic languages (Latin influence from roman empire times) the germans dare to fight them and never been occupied from the romans and therefore only a little influence from the romans and different grammar and sentence structure.
Will Ferrell's wife Viveca Paulin is a Swedish actress and producer. She was born in Gothenborg Sweden. Viveca Paulin was in the movies. Money Talks (1997) staring Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker and Heather Locklear. And the movie. Martial Law (1998) staring Kely Hu. Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung. Sammo Hung is known from the Bruce Lee movies. Enter the Dragon (1973) and Game of Death (1978).
I have noticed that we as spanish speakers we're not that picky with pronunciation when a non-native is speaking It, but the rest are a bit more kinda strict in that. So, neither of the 2 celebrities speaking spanish had a kinda perfect pronunciation, but I have to admit the first one was very impressive ❤
Anya Taylor Joy is half british half argentinian. She stay in Argentina till 8 years old. Her Spanish is perfect! And she has the accent. She is truly bilingual! @@bilbohob7179
Gwyneth Paltrow lived for a while in Spain 🇪🇸 with a family in the municipality of Talavera de la Reina (province of Toledo), near the Community of Madrid; in fact, I think she has returned to this Spanish town more times.
If she was in city of Tavalera in province of Toledo, to learn Castilian she's was in the right place and in right time cos there is the palcebirth of all Castilian standart idiom til today, Toledan is the father idiom of Castilian, the name of subfamily of Spanish is Toledan. This fact explains many things.....
@@anastasianikolaevnaromanoff Oh, god! That would suck so much! Just like is happening in Norway, I think (definitely Scandinavia), the princess has a wacko husband or boyfriend with similar views as Gwyneth.
Will Ferrell his wife is from Sweden 💛💙 In August 2000, Ferrell married Swedish actress Viveca Paulin, whom he met in 1995 at an acting class. It sounded like it was German cause of his volume. Same happens when American try to speak Dutch... it always sounds like German and never ever Dutch 😢 I know i am Dutch.
They aren't exceptional or not sure what you mean by that? Exceptional as Americans? Jodie foster studied at the French school and Cooper lived some years in a French speaking country as a child.
@@manchesterunitedno7 Yes, that's because she was educated in the French system. Any kid educated in the French system ends up speaking like a native speaker.
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I have to say that the channel choose really charismatic and friendly (alright, it's the name of the channel, but you know) people to appear at the videos, so... Congratulations, World Friends, and thank to all the girls (women) and boys (men) that shows themselves on a video to all people around the world. I really like those interactions. I've saw an iranian girl/woman (something that I never would expect to see/hear) and also a georgian girl/woman. Those were really unexpected interactions and broke a lot of misconceptions (for me, at least). Thank you from Brazil (Brasil), World Friends!
I agree that the practice of speaking is crucial in learning. I had learnt Chinese when I was very young but I now live in a little town where no one here speaks this language; my level of vocab is now so poor. I had purchased some school textbooks to relearn it again. Luckily there are so many online resources that are available now when compared to 20 years ago.
Chris Pratt did not have B1 level there! It was really A1, or if we’re really generous we could say A2. (I think my level is A2 and it is much better than his there.)
Yeah, he really did, his grammar and vocabulary wasn't like perfect perfect, but his pronunciation was super good, genuinely just sounded like some guy from northern Italy
To be honest his Italian wasn't so good for a man who lived in Italy for 7 years, he had a good pronunciation and a good accent, but he wasn't speaking Italian, he was speaking English with Italian words. He spoke very better after the answer we see in this clip when the interviewer asked him less formal questions and he speak more natural. Sportmen has very often a "pre build scheme" of answers, even when they speak in their language, when the interviewer asked him about his feelings about receiving an award he translate that scheme in Italian, probably he said the exactly same thing to any other journalist.
Will Smith, if you see this video, man your knowledge of Spanish is great and we can see it. It's just fluency that doesn't sound perfect because, obviously, you probably don't need to speak in Spanish everyday. Great knowledge 👍
Learning other languages is so important for knowing other cultures, and leads to being a better human. It makes it hard to fault anyone who tries, because it’s already an act filled with fear and trepidation.
@@junniormattos1 Not too different, but definitely distinguishable. We were taught European French in high school and our teacher said speaking it to someone from Quebec would get you amused looks, like they'd know you were definitely not Canadian. To be honest, I don't know anybody that'd actually teach Canadian French, but that was pretty much the point of the joke, haha.
Just a video idea,maybe a video of people from France or French speaking countries pronouncing the names from those countries or regions. Love to hear the native pronunciation of Charles Leclerc(Monaco F1 driver),Kevin De Bruyne(Belgium footballer)Sophie Marceau(French actress) and many many more
Could easily be done with more than one country. Pretty much every developed country in the world have some famous people that the US americans butcher the pronounciation of. :)
I must say I am impressed that they all speak such good English! and I must say beautiful ladies, especially those who are French, German, Swedish🙂 /Sweden
i find this format good. all people in the should life so. friendly to other and a little bit interessing in other cultures. then we had no war. but if i see in germany my home country a company biuld a facrory they produce munition.
The majority of native populations hate war, respect other countries and cultures. It's governments, corporations, agencies who start wars over evil motives, who do so much damage to cultures by forced immigration and destruction of historical and cultural significance within Nations.
I enjoyed this! I'm Australian. I used to speak German and Italian (and spoke conversational Italian when I was in Italy on holiday). My language skills are not so good now. I have French, Swedish and Spanish ancestry and would like to start learning Swedish. I fell in love with the language since discovering Molly Sandén's music 🙂
I have noticed that if you stress the first syllable while speaking swedish you can actually just very believable: Det är ABSOlut VIKtigt för man att RÖra sig VARje dag XD
For Timothée Chalamet, he is Franco-American. His father is French, but they lived in New York. He has that kind of French like Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, who are both Francophones but have lived among Anglophones, so there is a slight difference between their French and that of Francophones who have lived in a Francophone country/region. For Emma Watson, it's the opposite; her parents are British, but they lived in Paris, where she was born.
I know Anthony Blinken, Joseph Gorden Levitt and Gemma Arterton can speak fluent French. King Charles III of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is fluent in German. David Lee Roth can also speak fluent Spanish. Also Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen are fluent in Dutch (but that’s only because they were born in The Netherlands) And then you have Christopher Lee, who is fluent in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Hats off to Will, Swedish is a hard language to learn and even though it was far from perfect, he still could make himself understood. I hope his wife is teaching him how to speak Swedish and not just the words to say.
These responses just reinforce the whole point of the post. Most other countries simply appreciate others speaking their language and don't require perfection. If a foreigner can easily be understood by the native, I don't understand the criticism.
@@mataqiel As a french person, we do appreciate a lot that foreigners try to speak french ! However what is the point of saying woah you're completly fluent whereas it's not the truth ? it's hypocritical
Du-Ri Cha grew up in Germany for his first 9 years, with his father playing football in Frankfurt and Leverkusen. He even startet playing football in Leverkusen. ;-)
Sir Christopher Lee could speak all of these languages. Im not sure it has been recorded at a point when he speaks swedish . But he was a genious in so many ways.
Sandra Bullock is not only half German, but also spent basically her entire youth in Germany, so yeah, she speaks the language she grew up with and Cha Du-Ri is LITERATLLY German, like, he was even born here ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
@@empty_akuma6577 I do have to back up a little: As far I was able to find out, he never actually got the German citizenship. BUT he was born here and spent a long amount of time living here, just like his father. So he technically could be a "true German".😆
@@earthsruby Yeah, to me that means he's German 😄 Many children of immigrants that are born here don't have a German passport, because I think the bureaucracy about double citizenship is fairly complicated.
They should have had Malin Åkerman. she speaks perfect Swedish but is a celebrity, same as many other swedish celebs.Two that are not swedish but married to swedish women are Hugh Grant and Micheal Fassbender. I know Micheal F has said a few words in swedish on The Graham Norton show.
@@tetepeb - Malin does make a few slight, barely noticeable grammar mistakes. She also uses some English words/expressions translated literally into Swedish which makes it a bit unidiomatic. Her accent is basically flawless though. I hear native speakers that sound like her in my area.
Chalamet speaks a really good French. The accent is not perfectly on point, tho, and I think French people care more about that than in most other countries for historical reasons (Jacobinism).
As someone who studies French like I do, the French always hear out and pick up my fault from time to time. It's good overall but my accent and pronunciation can't improve, it becomes bothersome.
Of course we won't say "You are bad" that's rude when someone tires to speak your Language. :D It's always great to hear and listen someone trying their best to speak my Language (German) I know it's not easy and they won't be perfect but maybe with time. :D
4:34 Not entirely true but somewhat, standard german is based on mostly middle german (and high german aka even further south) dialects, it was made to have a common language when the printing press was invented and the bible got translated. In North Germany we have low german which is a different language with the same root as high german, if people spoke low german, most germans wouldn't understand it so in the north people started to just use standard german unless its grandparents or parents at home (it is mutually intelligible with old english as that also has the same root, so people often say low german is somewhere between dutch and english). We basically have less of a dialect because we had to completely change to a different language (that being the middle german-based standard german) rather than changing a few words. And even then you can clearly hear when someone is from close to the north sea or baltic coast because they do speak with a bit of a dialect. The least dialect and most "standard" standard german is spoken in Hannover which is further to the middle of the country. Actually if i take my grandparents as an example, who spoke mainly low german, their standard german has more of an accent rather than a dialect, which makes sense. They sounded a lot more natural when speaking low german.
No, standard german is based on middle german, especialy on "sächsische Kanzleisprache" witch was used by Martin Luther. And Hannover is definitely in Northern Germany. In the 19th century people in Hannover still spoke low german.
@@olafgogmo5426 yea which is why i said further to the middle of the country and not "in central germany" people also still spoke low german in hannover in the 20th century, nowadays its just the older generations like anywhere in north germany, but you can't really tell an accent like with people closer to the coast like in Schwerin, Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen or Oldenburg. The "sächsische Kanzleisprache" wasn't just middle german but a mix of middle german and high german and was used for interregional communication rather than regional. But yes, I should've said middle german rather than high german as it was mostly middle german.
The problem of Standard German that persists to this day was a mistake, they were right to include Middle and Low German, but they made a big mistake when they excluded Northern Low German, so they ended up creating an unnecessary diglossia and isoglossia and there are dialects being suppressed from In a crazy way, the story would have been much better if Low German had been part of standard German now.
I am native Spanish and speak quite fluent (but accented) English and German and basic Italian... Most of the people that sound native are born or brought up as pure bilinguals (my kids are so, they speak my three main languages as natives, with dialect accent). Gwyneth was in a small city in Toledo called Talavera de la Reina for 6 months or one year and you can hear very good Spanish but a bit rusty. It happens to me when I do not practice with natives for a while. And Will Smith Spanish was better than Chris German in my opinion. If you want to speak another language, practice, practice, practice. Forget the shyness, do it half wrong. It gets better through the way.
I could hear an accent on Gwyneth Paltrow. She said "hay una opertunidad a ir a España" where ir should have been "hay una oportunidad de ir a España". Then she used the wrong tense saying "yo hacía un intercambio" instead of "hice un intercambio". But she sounded very confident doing it so she fooled everyone.😅
Sandra Bullock has actually both US and German citizenship. Her mother was German and she lived in Germany in her childhood.
She was raised in Nürnberg, and that is also why she speaks with a slight franconian dialect.
You also get on her good side by organizing the local sausages from Nuernberg. They are not available in the US for some strange reason. You have to smuggle them in. She loves them.
yeah, her german is so good, because she grew up with it :D
Yes, her pronunciation is very good, but she did make one mistake that makes it clear her native language is English (can also happen to native German speakers who have lived in an English-speaking country for a while). She wanted to say that her speech (ie, the words that she had written to say on the podium) was lying there on the floor, but she actually said "my language is lying on the floor there". But it makes sense if you speak English, because "sprechen" is speak and "Sprache" is the noun form from that verb...but it doesn't mean "speech" in German, as it does in English, but rather "language."
@@RKB74 I thought that was intentional because she wanted to express that she did not speak the language for a very long time. In this case saying "my language is lying on the floor" may be a bit nonstandard but shows that she really knows german
@@RKB74 but she is native speaker for english and german, a true bilingual, living and growing up in germany for 12 years. so her mistake seems more likely to be the way most of her life after the 12 years in germany she maybe did not speak german much
Sandra Bullock actually has a German accent. Her mother is German and she grew up in Nuremberg until she was 12 years old. Therefore, she has a slight Franconian accent.
Kobe was raised in Italy his whole life until high school. His dad played professional there.
Yeah, but you can hear he didn't speak Italian for a long time, you know, you can hear he was thinking in English translating in Italian, he had a good vocabulary, a good pronunciation and a good accent, but the construction of sentences is simply not Italian. For example he said "fare ispirazione per loro" but it should be "essere d'ispirazione per gli altri", he said "è molto importante fare le cose che sono più grandi di te stesso" that basically means nothing in Italian etc. this happens because he speak in English, with Italian words, but in English.
@@nicoladc89 Why did the Italian girl say his italian was perfect?
@@Garrett1240 🤷♂
Nah, he lived there from 6 to 13
He didn’t live there until high school. He famously attended high school in Philadelphia and was drafted straight out of high school.
Knowing 3 of these languages and having listened to the others, their advice for how to learn each one individually at the end is really helpful.
Sandra Bullock is so good that she does the German thing to say "I'm really bad at -Insert language-" and than speak it fluently.
Sounds exactly like how Swedes behave.
I would say I don't really know much German but I perfectly understood what she said.
and then
Cha Du-ri was born in Frankfurt and grew up there. So, yes, he is a native speaker. His father Cha Bum-kun played for Eintracht Frankfurt when he was born.
His dad was a legend, amazing player.
I am surprised Jodie Foster was not there. She speaks perfect French.
She also speaks a surprisingly good and fluent italian
I was about to type the same thing!
@@AMERASIAN12 Same!
I love Jodie's French, even though she has that metropolitan French accent. Her skills are perfect. Timothee also has a great rhythm and accent. My ears bend to understand them though. I have lost so much of my European French, that I struggle to understand every nuance of the language. It's much easier for me to understand Canadians speaking French. The nasal vowels are clearer to the ear.
Yes her french is flawless it's actually frightening !
Awesome group of girls here, kudos! Respectful, funny and no one running over other's mouth and taking a lead role. Very entertaining to watch.
They all looks like adult unlike previous one
we should never be ashamed of not necessarily speaking a foreign language perfectly. The most important thing will always be to try, it shows people that you are interested in them. And what could be more gratifying than seeing a face light up when a few words, even awkwardly pronounced, are said.
Take care, have fun
Absolutely! You hit the nail on the head! 👍
Sandra Bullock has a German mother and spent several years of her childhood in parts of Germany and Austria.
Sandra Bullock speaks a bit of a Franconian dialect, as she grew up in Nuremberg. And you notice that she doesn't speak German so often, because she uses “Sprache” instead of “Rede”, which both mean “speech”. But the first one refers to language or voice, while the second is a prepared monologue.
I think that was the joke/ice breaker tho like "oh I lost my language (referring to english) on the floor, so forgive any mistakes I might make during the speech" since she's more comfortable in english nowadays and used to do her speeches for american audiences🙈thats why they laughed too
They all use hand gestures - no one notices. An Italian moves a finger - "Ooooooo you're speaking with your hands how cuuuute"...
Italian gestures is another language in and of itself 😂 🤌🏽
Will Ferrell is married to a Swede just like they said in the video and they have a summerhouse in Sweden so he´s here every summer around Midsommar.
Also the actress Geena Davis (google her young kids, she was one of the characters in Thelma and Louise) speaks really good Swedish, she was an exchange student here in her young adulthood and was in a relationship with a Swedish guy and almost stayed here if i remember correctly.
Also, when she worked (and was in a relationship) with Renny Harlin, who is from Finland, they used to speak Swedish on set when they didn't want others to know what they were talking about.
The french are so hyper critical of foreigners speaking their language I find. I have never tried Swedish but every time I try to practice with native speakers of italian, Spanish and german they are so forgiving and happy I am learning their language! I am most proficient in French in fact and am criticized most by French speakers.
French people are hyper-critical about everything. Really their national spirit.
Swedes are also very forgiving and happy when you try to speak Swedish, but almost all Swedes switch to English if we hear you are trying, cause is the core of Swedish culture not to embarrass anyone, basically all of our behaviors stem from that core value. We don't want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. So foreginers usually have trouble practicing Swedish as so many Swedes switch over to English right away in consideration. If you want to speak Swedish to a Swede you have to tell them to please speak Swedish back so you can practice, otherwise they will just switch to Eng.
I don't think you should see this as criticism, it is just an observation, that's what was asked of her here.
And in general, if a french person corrects you when you practice, don't see it as a critic either, most (I cannot speak for all the french assholes) french people would do that to help you learn the proper french, not to pull you down but just because we know how hard it is and that's also what we would do for children learning.
Some people simply don't have the maturity to be corrected so they can improve and prefer to wallow into their mistakes. In France that's not the case. Children are encouraged from a young age to try and do things properly.
@@puccalandc'est pour ça qu'en France,on est très mauvais pour apprendre les langues étrangères. Il nous manque beaucoup d'humilité.
So true about speaking with others, because you may know how to say something but if you don’t understand the other party, you may not be able to respond properly. If you don’t speak with others, you may only understand the most proper form of a reply to your phrase, which is hard to find outside of language learning software since most people use colloquialisms , slangs, and shortcuts.
i couldn't help but laugh at will speaking swedish, not just because of the delivery but also because of the grammar. He said it as if he was directing the message to one person (DU är så DUKTIG! DU är STARK!) when it's actually directed at a group of people (NI är så DUKTIGA! NI är STARKA!)😂
English used to have different words for you as a group ("you"), and you as an individual ("thou"), but nowadays is just the more formal (and shorter) you for everything. Same with "the" for everything in English whereas there used to be quite a bit more complicated than that.
@@RobertClaeson Isn't that kind of the point with the comment? Grammar is different in alot of languages, just translating every word doesn't make it right
Sandra Bullock is German so it's not a bit surprise her German was so good :D
Not German but born and raised in Germany.
@@fsinjin60Her mum was german
@@fsinjin60 yes she is German
Sandra Bullock has a German mother and lived in Germany for the first 12 years. She has a Franconian accent.
By the way, Leonardo Dicaprio's mother is also German.
Actually, many US actors and singers have German ancestors, but because of German history they prefer not to bring it up. For example Jodie Forster, Taylor Swift,...
The USA, the country where your heritage goes to die :(
Don't forget Bruce Willis ... who not only had a german mother but also was born there.
Or others where born in Germany bc the parents did military service ... like Martin Lawrence or Reggie Watts
I still learning german and for me of course is hard , even though i know the basic german , as i know portuguese and spanish i had not some much problems with Italian
(Simplified) Portugese, spanish, italian and french are romanic languages (Latin influence from roman empire times) the germans dare to fight them and never been occupied from the romans and therefore only a little influence from the romans and different grammar and sentence structure.
Will Ferrell's wife Viveca Paulin is a Swedish actress and producer.
She was born in Gothenborg Sweden.
Viveca Paulin was in the movies.
Money Talks (1997) staring Charlie Sheen, Chris Tucker and Heather Locklear. And the movie.
Martial Law (1998) staring Kely Hu. Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung.
Sammo Hung is known from the Bruce Lee movies.
Enter the Dragon (1973) and
Game of Death (1978).
I have noticed that we as spanish speakers we're not that picky with pronunciation when a non-native is speaking It, but the rest are a bit more kinda strict in that.
So, neither of the 2 celebrities speaking spanish had a kinda perfect pronunciation, but I have to admit the first one was very impressive ❤
The mindset of respecting the effort.
Try now listen to Viggo M. or Anya T.J
Anya Taylor Joy is half british half argentinian.
She stay in Argentina till 8 years old. Her Spanish is perfect! And she has the accent. She is truly bilingual!
@@bilbohob7179
This is so funny. The French woman reacted exactly like Katya and Bob The Drag Queen said the French react.
Hahah yes 😅
I read French and listen to French audiobooks. 💯💙
Thimothée Chalamet is from France , his name actually is so hard to speak that he even said "it's whatever you like" 😂
He's american. He has an accent when he speaks french. His father is french.
I thought for some reason he was frech canadian I don't know why lol
Is American but is father is French he grew up in us and going some time in france for vacation
@@CT-7567R3XHe has both the American and French citizenship, so I guess he's both, since he also lived in France and America for long periods of time.
@@cameron92jr48He's Franco-American.
Gwyneth Paltrow lived for a while in Spain 🇪🇸 with a family in the municipality of Talavera de la Reina (province of Toledo), near the Community of Madrid; in fact, I think she has returned to this Spanish town more times.
She has, she has said in other interviews that she tries for at least once a year to go back to Spain.
If she was in city of Tavalera in province of Toledo, to learn Castilian she's was in the right place and in right time cos there is the palcebirth of all Castilian standart idiom til today, Toledan is the father idiom of Castilian, the name of subfamily of Spanish is Toledan.
This fact explains many things.....
There was a gossip that she was a girlfriend of King Felipe VI of Spain (at that time still Prince) 😂 Imagine Queen Gwyneth 😂
@@anastasianikolaevnaromanoff
Oh, god! That would suck so much! Just like is happening in Norway, I think (definitely Scandinavia), the princess has a wacko husband or boyfriend with similar views as Gwyneth.
Will Ferrell his wife is from Sweden 💛💙
In August 2000, Ferrell married Swedish actress Viveca Paulin, whom he met in 1995 at an acting class.
It sounded like it was German cause of his volume. Same happens when American try to speak Dutch... it always sounds like German and never ever Dutch 😢 I know i am Dutch.
Could have posted Bradley Cooper and Jodie Foster speaking French too. Both are quite exceptional, especially Jodie Foster.
They aren't exceptional or not sure what you mean by that? Exceptional as Americans? Jodie foster studied at the French school and Cooper lived some years in a French speaking country as a child.
@@puccaland Jodie Foster grasp of French is native level. She even starred in a couple of French movies.
@@manchesterunitedno7 Yes, that's because she was educated in the French system. Any kid educated in the French system ends up speaking like a native speaker.
I have to say that the channel choose really charismatic and friendly (alright, it's the name of the channel, but you know) people to appear at the videos, so... Congratulations, World Friends, and thank to all the girls (women) and boys (men) that shows themselves on a video to all people around the world.
I really like those interactions. I've saw an iranian girl/woman (something that I never would expect to see/hear) and also a georgian girl/woman. Those were really unexpected interactions and broke a lot of misconceptions (for me, at least).
Thank you from Brazil (Brasil), World Friends!
I agree that the practice of speaking is crucial in learning. I had learnt Chinese when I was very young but I now live in a little town where no one here speaks this language; my level of vocab is now so poor. I had purchased some school textbooks to relearn it again. Luckily there are so many online resources that are available now when compared to 20 years ago.
True practicing your chinese on the web now.
I've did much more for english online after finishing school than what we had in class. Simply using the language did so much.
Chris Pratt did not have B1 level there! It was really A1, or if we’re really generous we could say A2. (I think my level is A2 and it is much better than his there.)
She was being gracious 😅
Somebody please tell the producers that the Italian and French flags have the colors in the opposite way. Red is on the right side for both.
They are Koreans. They have no ideas about Europe anyways.
did they stick them on upside down and not realize
They stuck them on upside-down
@@Minerva-fp1zx Yes, but it's not the first time, they keep doing that.
I think it's because the image is reversed with the camera
Not shocked to see Kobe there with Italian, it is pretty well known among basketball fans that he spoke great Italian.
Yeah, he really did, his grammar and vocabulary wasn't like perfect perfect, but his pronunciation was super good, genuinely just sounded like some guy from northern Italy
He grew up in Italy.
To be honest his Italian wasn't so good for a man who lived in Italy for 7 years, he had a good pronunciation and a good accent, but he wasn't speaking Italian, he was speaking English with Italian words. He spoke very better after the answer we see in this clip when the interviewer asked him less formal questions and he speak more natural.
Sportmen has very often a "pre build scheme" of answers, even when they speak in their language, when the interviewer asked him about his feelings about receiving an award he translate that scheme in Italian, probably he said the exactly same thing to any other journalist.
"Today we watched American celebrities speaking different languages."
Emma Watson: 😳
Hahah I thought the same 😅
Ooooooh, hahahahahaha 😂😂 Now that you mention it... I missed that. 😂
Will Smith, if you see this video, man your knowledge of Spanish is great and we can see it. It's just fluency that doesn't sound perfect because, obviously, you probably don't need to speak in Spanish everyday. Great knowledge 👍
Dude... it's not. lmao
That swedish girl i can watch for hours....wow!
She is cool 😊
Learning other languages is so important for knowing other cultures, and leads to being a better human. It makes it hard to fault anyone who tries, because it’s already an act filled with fear and trepidation.
Wow, the Italian lady is incredibly beautiful. ❤
She reminds me of Anya Taylor Joy
Gwyneth Paltrow dated King Felipe VI of Spain (at that time still prince). Imagine QUEEN GWYNETH!
😂😂😂
Wasn’t she selling vaginal eggs 🥚?! 😂😂😂😂
The French girl has her flag facing the wrong direction. It is Bleu Blanc Rouge.
More of these please.
... and the girls were all good at English - I think comfortable with their ability and capability.
Finally Madrid represented !!
Welcome Carolina! 😃
I speak Brazilian Portuguese, English, a little bit of Spanish and now I'm learning Italian 😍
Take Canadian French to mix things up! (kidding, keep up with your studies, champ.
@@lunayoshi actually, French is the next I want to learn, 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 is it the Canadian too different from the France?
@@junniormattos1 Not too different, but definitely distinguishable. We were taught European French in high school and our teacher said speaking it to someone from Quebec would get you amused looks, like they'd know you were definitely not Canadian.
To be honest, I don't know anybody that'd actually teach Canadian French, but that was pretty much the point of the joke, haha.
@@lunayoshi oh, I see haha
Buongiorno. Come va? Perché vuoi imparare l'italiano?
Nothing will beat some Italian politician trying to speak english...trust me, I'm italian.
🤣🤣
No. French politician are worst haha. But we don't care. We are French after all haha
Please more Videos with Carol. She is very lovely❤
the girl from spain is beautiful!!
I've only been learning Spanish for 8 months, but was surprised that I could understand most of what Gweneth Paltrow was saying.
Just a video idea,maybe a video of people from France or French speaking countries pronouncing the names from those countries or regions. Love to hear the native pronunciation of Charles Leclerc(Monaco F1 driver),Kevin De Bruyne(Belgium footballer)Sophie Marceau(French actress) and many many more
Could easily be done with more than one country. Pretty much every developed country in the world have some famous people that the US americans butcher the pronounciation of. :)
The only one you can easily read is « Sofi Marsso » ahaha
Unfortunately we can’t comment with vocals
I would like to have met more french people like this girl 🥰
Gwyneth Paltrow pronunciation was very clear, I could understand every word, and I'm not even from a country that speaks Spanish
I must say I am impressed that they all speak such good English!
and I must say beautiful ladies, especially those who are French, German, Swedish🙂
/Sweden
i find this format good. all people in the should life so. friendly to other and a little bit interessing in other cultures. then we had no war. but if i see in germany my home country a company biuld a facrory they produce munition.
The majority of native populations hate war, respect other countries and cultures. It's governments, corporations, agencies who start wars over evil motives, who do so much damage to cultures by forced immigration and destruction of historical and cultural significance within Nations.
I enjoyed this! I'm Australian. I used to speak German and Italian (and spoke conversational Italian when I was in Italy on holiday). My language skills are not so good now.
I have French, Swedish and Spanish ancestry and would like to start learning Swedish. I fell in love with the language since discovering Molly Sandén's music 🙂
Sucess learn with arts games and films all idioms that you wanna learn😘😘😘🌻🌻🌻👍👍👍Good luck sucess ever.
Italian 🇮🇹 and French 🇫🇷 flags on the girls are upside-down!! 🙄
Cha Du-Ri was born and raised in Germany. So he is as fluent as any native speaker could be...
It's nice that they say that hand gestures are an Italian prerogative but then everyone does them
They missed Freddie Highmore and josh Hutcherson for Spanish!!
Freddie Highmore speak also very well French and also arab. He is talented
wow I had no idea! @@revertnicolas5977
Viggo Mortensen speaks a perfect Argentian Spanish and he also speaks danish, catalan and Italian. And obviously English.
Swedish has pitch accents instead of stress accents, that's why most foreigners think it sounds so melodic or sing songy
I have noticed that if you stress the first syllable while speaking swedish you can actually just very believable: Det är ABSOlut VIKtigt för man att RÖra sig VARje dag XD
I mean yeah you could call it a melody 😂 although it just makes the sound of the language overall choppy and harsh
@@caroskaffee3052 Swedish sounds harsh?
@@yesplatinum7956 yes extremely. try to read the sentence that the second commenter wrote without sounding like you want to unalive someone
@@caroskaffee3052I’d say it’s soft because our English accents sound very silly and we also don’t have many harsh sounds. Choppy I’ll take tho.
For Timothée Chalamet, he is Franco-American. His father is French, but they lived in New York. He has that kind of French like Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, who are both Francophones but have lived among Anglophones, so there is a slight difference between their French and that of Francophones who have lived in a Francophone country/region.
For Emma Watson, it's the opposite; her parents are British, but they lived in Paris, where she was born.
Geena Davis would have been perfect for Swedish
Viggo Mortensen.
English
Spanish
Danish
Catalan
French
Italian
I’m learning German as we visit Germany and Austria often. It’s a brilliant language and I don’t find it harsh at all.
Aww just the one swedish speaker
I know Anthony Blinken, Joseph Gorden Levitt and Gemma Arterton can speak fluent French.
King Charles III of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is fluent in German.
David Lee Roth can also speak fluent Spanish.
Also Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen are fluent in Dutch (but that’s only because they were born in The Netherlands)
And then you have Christopher Lee, who is fluent in French, German, Italian and Spanish.
Yes Sandra Bullock has a (very slight) Franconian accent
.. plus a bold American accent aswell, pretty wild blend 😁
Yea, because she growe up in Nürnberg
Hats off to Will, Swedish is a hard language to learn and even though it was far from perfect, he still could make himself understood. I hope his wife is teaching him how to speak Swedish and not just the words to say.
I thought Will Ferrell would start channeling the Swedish chef!🤣🤣🤣
Why is that?
I'm so used to listening to them speaking in English, that whenever they speak a different language, it sounds like they're being dubbed! lol
Typical French "it's not pefect but good job" even though it was perfectly fluent.
It's never perfect, it'll always be 19/20.
Timohtée Chalamet nor Emma Watson are fluent, she was juste saying the truth ...
Un point extra pour le 19/20. 0,9 je veux dire.
These responses just reinforce the whole point of the post. Most other countries simply appreciate others speaking their language and don't require perfection. If a foreigner can easily be understood by the native, I don't understand the criticism.
@@mataqiel As a french person, we do appreciate a lot that foreigners try to speak french ! However what is the point of saying woah you're completly fluent whereas it's not the truth ? it's hypocritical
Du-Ri Cha grew up in Germany for his first 9 years, with his father playing football in Frankfurt and Leverkusen. He even startet playing football in Leverkusen. ;-)
Bradley Cooper speaks French. I heard him on a French program and he just took the earpiece out and asked if they could just speaking french
Lady gaga has italian heritage actually
Hearing Gwenyth Paltrow speak Spanish is so honorable. I’m from Ecuador, (not neutral, but OK) but her speech is very fluent,
She is amazing 😊
Her accent is what they call "neutral" in Spain. Context is the key.
She has a very neutral accent, actually I was thinking she could do some dubbing work without any problem.
Where is Bradley Cooper? He can speak French!
La seule qui a mis son drapeau à l'envers c'est la française 😂
Shame that you did not have the interview with Richie Faulkner from tge band judas priest where he speaks Swedish.
The French girl is so cute
those Gaulish genes
I don't know a single word of swedish and i laughted a lot with the swedish part and also sounded german for me 😂
people will hear any language being spoken loud and harshly and be like "is this german"
Sir Christopher Lee could speak all of these languages. Im not sure it has been recorded at a point when he speaks swedish . But he was a genious in so many ways.
Sandra Bullock is not only half German, but also spent basically her entire youth in Germany, so yeah, she speaks the language she grew up with and Cha Du-Ri is LITERATLLY German, like, he was even born here ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
I was wondering about Cha Du-Ri. I thought he either has been living in Germany for a long ass time, or he's just straight up German.
@@empty_akuma6577 I do have to back up a little: As far I was able to find out, he never actually got the German citizenship. BUT he was born here and spent a long amount of time living here, just like his father. So he technically could be a "true German".😆
@@earthsruby Yeah, to me that means he's German 😄 Many children of immigrants that are born here don't have a German passport, because I think the bureaucracy about double citizenship is fairly complicated.
Wow very complicated
Kobe Bryant could speak Spanish as well.
Now, seriously, who is the swedish girl? Has to be the prettiest girl I've seen in my life.
They should have had Malin Åkerman. she speaks perfect Swedish but is a celebrity, same as many other swedish celebs.Two that are not swedish but married to swedish women are Hugh Grant and Micheal Fassbender. I know Micheal F has said a few words in swedish on The Graham Norton show.
She has Swedish parents so it´s not that weird that she can speak fluent Swedish allthoug she speaks Swedish with an American accent.
@@tetepeb - Malin does make a few slight, barely noticeable grammar mistakes. She also uses some English words/expressions translated literally into Swedish which makes it a bit unidiomatic.
Her accent is basically flawless though. I hear native speakers that sound like her in my area.
@@Ulfscher She is more American than Swedish if we are being honest so it's not that weird that she's not 100% ok the grammer and so on.
@@tetepeb - absolutely.
@@tetepeb *Canadian. She was raised in Canada
Kobe Bryant's (R.I.P.) father played basketball in Italy and Kobe lived sometime in Italy during his childhood.
Chalamet speaks a really good French. The accent is not perfectly on point, tho, and I think French people care more about that than in most other countries for historical reasons (Jacobinism).
the backsound is too loud in this video. louder than the girls voice. it is not easy to focus on their talk.
The most effective way to learn a new language is the Hellen Keller method, ie just immerse yourself in the language
As someone who studies French like I do, the French always hear out and pick up my fault from time to time. It's good overall but my accent and pronunciation can't improve, it becomes bothersome.
Le drapeau Français 🇫🇷
Of course we won't say "You are bad" that's rude when someone tires to speak your Language. :D
It's always great to hear and listen someone trying their best to speak my Language (German) I know it's not easy and they won't be perfect but maybe with time. :D
I wish the Swedish example had been Trixie Mattel.
Bradley Cooper speaks perfect French. I was sure he would have been analyzed.
Oh I was hoping they'd bring him up. I haven't finished to that part yet.
No he doesn’t… 😂😂😂
Still he speaks pretty well but far from bilingual.
I bet when she said "I love him for trying" she wasn't being condescendant, we actually do love when they try!
@@LHLH78 You don't know our culture. It's fine...
Sandra Bullock grew up in Nuremberg. She speaks the Franconian dialect of German.
U guys ahould include son heung min he speaks really well
4:34 Not entirely true but somewhat, standard german is based on mostly middle german (and high german aka even further south) dialects, it was made to have a common language when the printing press was invented and the bible got translated. In North Germany we have low german which is a different language with the same root as high german, if people spoke low german, most germans wouldn't understand it so in the north people started to just use standard german unless its grandparents or parents at home (it is mutually intelligible with old english as that also has the same root, so people often say low german is somewhere between dutch and english). We basically have less of a dialect because we had to completely change to a different language (that being the middle german-based standard german) rather than changing a few words. And even then you can clearly hear when someone is from close to the north sea or baltic coast because they do speak with a bit of a dialect. The least dialect and most "standard" standard german is spoken in Hannover which is further to the middle of the country.
Actually if i take my grandparents as an example, who spoke mainly low german, their standard german has more of an accent rather than a dialect, which makes sense. They sounded a lot more natural when speaking low german.
No, standard german is based on middle german, especialy on "sächsische Kanzleisprache" witch was used by Martin Luther. And Hannover is definitely in Northern Germany. In the 19th century people in Hannover still spoke low german.
@@olafgogmo5426 yea which is why i said further to the middle of the country and not "in central germany" people also still spoke low german in hannover in the 20th century, nowadays its just the older generations like anywhere in north germany, but you can't really tell an accent like with people closer to the coast like in Schwerin, Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen or Oldenburg.
The "sächsische Kanzleisprache" wasn't just middle german but a mix of middle german and high german and was used for interregional communication rather than regional. But yes, I should've said middle german rather than high german as it was mostly middle german.
The problem of Standard German that persists to this day was a mistake, they were right to include Middle and Low German, but they made a big mistake when they excluded Northern Low German, so they ended up creating an unnecessary diglossia and isoglossia and there are dialects being suppressed from In a crazy way, the story would have been much better if Low German had been part of standard German now.
As a Swede, it was very easy to adopt the Australian English accent 😂
I am native Spanish and speak quite fluent (but accented) English and German and basic Italian... Most of the people that sound native are born or brought up as pure bilinguals (my kids are so, they speak my three main languages as natives, with dialect accent). Gwyneth was in a small city in Toledo called Talavera de la Reina for 6 months or one year and you can hear very good Spanish but a bit rusty. It happens to me when I do not practice with natives for a while. And Will Smith Spanish was better than Chris German in my opinion. If you want to speak another language, practice, practice, practice. Forget the shyness, do it half wrong. It gets better through the way.
Cha Du-Ri played football in Germany for the best part of a decade
I could hear an accent on Gwyneth Paltrow. She said "hay una opertunidad a ir a España" where ir should have been "hay una oportunidad de ir a España". Then she used the wrong tense saying "yo hacía un intercambio" instead of "hice un intercambio". But she sounded very confident doing it so she fooled everyone.😅
RIP KOBE AND GIGI BRYANT❤❤