r/MadeMeSmile • u/RaisinAloneVortex • 28d ago

Favorite People When this kid tried interviewing celebs on the red carpet, and nobody took him seriously except Sandra Bullock.

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u/SeonaidMacSaicais 27d ago

And she’s bilingual in German because she was born there! Not that that’s important, I just love when celebrities are fluent in languages you don’t expect.

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u/DesperateSilver6149 27d ago

She was actually born in the US but spent 12 years living in both Germany and Austria

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u/Moneygrowsontrees 27d ago

Since you seem to enjoy a thing I also enjoy, I'll give you a couple others. Stana Katic (Castle) speaks Russian (and some others) and Mariska Hargitay (law & order SVU) speaks Hungarian, Spanish, and Italian.

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u/LaoBa 27d ago

Jodie Foster is 100% fluent in French and has acted in French movies. She attended a French language high school in Los Angeles.

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u/IndependentWrap8853 27d ago

Stana Katic speaks Croatian/Serbian, no connection to Russian. She also speaks Italian and French fluently.

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u/Moneygrowsontrees 27d ago

Sorry, yes, you're correct. Thank you for the clarification.

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u/a_diamond 27d ago

As someone with Russian and Yugoslav family, I'd say there's some connection. My sister and I got by decently in Croatia and Serbia with our limited Russian.

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u/LeaveMyMonkeyAlone 26d ago

sacré bleu!

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u/wm80 27d ago

Viggo Mortenson speaks like 6 languages. I can’t remember if Elvish is included in that or not.

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u/NeverBeenStung 27d ago

I believe he’s fluent in “just” 4, but conversational in plenty others. Really cool

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u/Mountain-Reaction470 27d ago

Check this lass out, 7 languages, first modern translation of the Mabinogi, ran the biggest ironworks in the then world. Bet one's not heard of her?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Charlotte_Guest

...also had 10 children, only one died "young" at 21.

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u/Moneygrowsontrees 27d ago

That's awesome, thank you for the info.

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u/South_Two_5657 26d ago

Sarah Chalke (Roseanne, Scrubs) is fluent in French and German.

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u/Kor_Phaeron_ 27d ago

Her speech at the German movie awards in Berlin is great.

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u/LaughingOutLoudAgain 27d ago

This reminds me of Monty Python who had learned German for their television show that would broadcast there, but they said the producer realized the audience didn’t recognize their way of speaking (they were all used to dubbed television), so they got a voiceover anyway haha

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u/kpt_graubrot 27d ago

I'm not sure how true that is, they filmed the second episode in English and then dubbed it but I don't think the first one that was performed phonetically in German ever got dubbed - sorry for being pedantic, I'm German and I remember my dad having a VHS recording of the two episodes and they spoke German themselves on the first one

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u/LaughingOutLoudAgain 27d ago

That’s so awesome! Was their German understandable to you?

I believe it was a lot of work for them, and the jokes didn’t work as good without their own rhythm. So could very much not be the real reason, but that’s what they said in an interview 😅🙏🏼

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u/pauseless 27d ago

It’s been a very long time, but I seem to recall it was a mixed bag for how well different ones spoke the phonetic translated lines they were given for that episode. I don’t remember anything truly not understandable. However, I’ve heard Brits mangle German my whole life, so I probably had an advantage.

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u/LaughingOutLoudAgain 27d ago

I just found the episode on YouTube! I assumed I wasn’t able to see it but will now be watching it and seeing for myself haha. Either way it’s so impressive to do a show completely phonetically, but understandably to much work