His swedish is a bit hesitant but it's perfectly understandable and absolutely correct grammatically. I can't judge his quality in the seven other languages that he apparantely speaks besides english, but I can definitely tell that he's an impressive man.
French is excellent, Spanish perfect, Italian and Catalan on point. And he seems to speak other languages at a high level. This man is so gifted, he is a chameleon. Actor, painter, poet, musician, photographer, scriptwriter, director, producer, poliglot, Viggo Mortensen lives 9 lifes in one. Awesome !
True story. When Viggo Mortensen was filming for the movie "Captain Fantastic" in Washington state, he had to speak a couple of lines of Chinese. The people making the movie contacted my Chinese teacher (who is not into movies at all) through the language school she was teaching at then. They picked her up in Seattle and drove her to the set in a limo, and she spent a few hours there teaching Viggo the correct pronunciation of the Chinese lines he had to speak, then they drove her back. She got something like $200 for the time she spent teaching him. She had no idea who he was. Later that week, when we met for our Chinese lesson, she told me that she had taught "some Danish actor, his name was like 'Vig' or something" how to say his lines. I was like, "Vig? Do you mean Viggo?!" She said, "Oh yeah, that was it." My eyes about popped out of my head. I asked her, "Do you know how famous he is?!?" She really didn't know. She'd never watched any of the Lord of the Rings movies and had no idea who he was, but she said he was a really nice guy.
How famous is he? I have never seen him in any movie. But him speaking different languages was all right. I also speak many but with horrible accent. I was impressed by his neutral accent in all languages
@@Benni-rp9or I also might suggest to add Alatriste, great movie. «Tell the lord duke of Enghien that we appreciate his words, but this is Spanish tercio»
Sometimes the most honest opinions and painting of someone else's character comes from a place of blissful bias and unknowing. I love this was all summed up by her saying he was a really nice guy 😁
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His Spanish is absolutely perfect! He has an argetinian accent....
Most danes speak multiple languages, I myself speak danish, german, english, some portugeese, greenlandic, some slavic words. And then I can speak with my nordic family ( norway and sweden). Not hard, just needs work. PS . Got some arabic also, all about trying to fit in and rrspect for other cultures and countries you have lived in.
@@MontagZosoIt would be "Tak" in his native Danish. "Tack" in Swedish. (And "Takk" in Norwegian). Speaking of, the last segment where he supposedly spoke Norwegian was really just Danish. Same words either way, but by pronunciation, definitely Danish.
Viggo Mortensen is truly a polyglot! An American actor who was raised a few years in Denmark and then a couple of years in Argentina! His Danish father and mother must have traveled a lot! This is why he is fluent in so many languages! A smart actor!
Bueno, y que lleva 15 años viviendo en España con una española. No tiene demasiado mérito. Es trilingue de nacimiento y cuando naces con varias lenguas es mucho más fácil aprender otras. Me encanta el acento argentino pero el suyo me parece feo. Igual es por la influencia de otras lenguas
He speaks Arabic as if he is Moroccan bravo viggo I have seen him in a movie speak Arabic but I did not think that he do it out of the movies great actor
My impression is that he does not speak Arabic fluently or well. When speaking Arabic, he sounds like a drunk Italian. It would be interesting to get feedback from more Arabic speakers.
He butchered it.. but to be fair even native Arabic speakers struggle with the Moroccan dialect. Still it’s appreciated by the crowd cause the effort itself and pronouncing 3-4 words correctly as a European is impressive enough.
@@davidemmet7343 He butchered it.. but to be fair even native Arabic speakers struggle with the Moroccan dialect. Still it’s appreciated by the crowd cause the effort itself and pronouncing 3-4 words correctly as a European is impressive enough.
I only know english and swedish out of these. His Swedish was a bit forced but ok still. Would need a month of 100% commitment and he´d be fluent in that too.
@@quaestiox Do you not realize how painfully obvious it is when someone acts mad about other peoples' talents? We all know you are a loser who is just frustrated in your own lack of ability.
What I find impressive is not that he speaks each of these languages but that he can do so conversationally, in a fairly fluid way, with what is, to my ear, an appropriate accent and cadence for each.
There's more too, not only does he speak all these languages, he's an accomplished jazz musician, I think he even has an album (can't remember what instrument he plays though) I think he paints too. He truly is a renaissance man
I spent 3 years trying to learn just one other language other than English and wasn’t even slightly proficient. People like Viggo blow my mind. The same goes for people with natural proficiency with music too. I’ve tried learning no less than 5 different instruments, one for as long as 4 years, and I could never understand how to read sheet music or play even slightly well.
You have to practice a little more, It's all about PRACTICE.
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Maybe it's a prejudice but native English speakers are not exposed to other languages as much as native Spanish speakers for example. We see many movies in English and hear a lot of songs which makes English a very familiar language for us, also Spanish and Italian languages are very similar so it's even easier for us.
@ Oh I totally agree. Especially in the United States most kids are barely taught anything in the way of a second language until nearly high school. Most other countries, even Canada with French, are exposed to other languages much earlier on. It’s a whole lot harder to fluently learn other languages and for them to be natural at an older age. I wish that could change in the U.S. It’s a little arrogant to just assume everyone else should just learn your own language, and then you don’t learn theirs. I’ve always been pretty naturally inept with a few things like languages, math, and reading music. But I think had I started with a 2nd or 3rd language at a very young age, I could have learned them pretty well. But today? Phew, I think it may be a little late. The best I can do are a few short phrases or niceties. But I do make it a point to learn those when I visit another country, out of respect. Things like please, thank you, excuse me, congratulations, those kinds of things.
The only way you really learn a language fast is by using it in real life. Be it because you live somewhere the language is spoken, or because you use it for work or some other reason. If you went to another country and had to use it every day you would learn it in a matter of months. At least to a degree that lets you do your job. And that's without cheating, if you just hang out with english speakers or avoid local people you will not learn anything. And you will learn how people really speak, which is usually not the way instructors do.
@@Dasani_water_drinker How many languages do you speak? Are you also a jazz musician (Viggo had his own band), a scriptwriter, a director, a poet, a photographer and a painter like Viggo Mortensen is? When you have accomplished even 10% of what this incredibly talented man has in his life, maybe you can make a comment. Until then STFU.
Yeah, I whole hardheartedly agree with you. Way too many (especially) English speakers don't even try. One has to accept that when we learn a new language, we're suddenly illiterate for a moment and that's fine because it's in the spirit of learning.
His Arabic is way better than mine and I am Arabic. I was born and raised in America and both of my parents worked so I never spoke Arabic growing up. I only know a tiny bit. When I try to speak Arabic I can never get through a sentence without using English words.
He is not speaking Norwegian in the last clip. He is speaking Danish. But he might be talking to Norwegians, they would understand what he was saying :)
The look on the lady's face behind him when he was giving an award speech in perfect Catalan, which only around 7 million people in the world can even speak, was priceless! I can see in her head "holy s!@# I thought he was some dumb actor 😳". Viggo is simply THE MAN!
I think it's not exact, as Catalan is spoken in some other regions in Spain (Valencia, Balearic island, and the oriental part of Aragon). My case is the last one.
@@javierwesahst2700 don't forget Andorra, where is the official language, Alger, Perpignan...also, he is dating/married with a Catalan actress, Ariadna Gil.
Surprised this didn't include his Russian. He speaks pretty good Russian which he learned to a reasonable level of proficiency (or improved, at least, I forget how much he spoke beforehand) for the movie Eastern Promises.
the last one he was speaking danish as well, you can hear it on the pronunciations of the words, but he was talking to norwegian people and on norwegian television.
Nothing makes people more excited than hearing their celebrity hero speaking their language. I cannot explain to you how amazing it is for us. It shows they care a lot and it's as close as we'll get to feeling as famous as them.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 I beg to differ, you may understand the languages (Norwegian and Swedish in this case), but writing and speaking is a completely different aspect of knowing languages.
@@ad_astraperaspera I don't think they should be counted as separate languages, just like Australian and American English are still considered English even though their mutual intelligibility and spelling differ. The Nordic language is artificially divided by politics.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 With all due respect, I think you mix your terms. Nordic is used to describe the countries and territories of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. These places have very different languages. Finnish is even in a different language family. The other languages were one language with different dialects long ago. Now, however, they are so different that they are considered distinct languages.
I would like to know more about his technique in how to learn so many languages. English and Argentinian Spanish are his native tongues and obviously Danish too. But the others, how did he do it, and at that high level?
Italian, Catalan, and to a lesser extent French, are very easy once you know Spanish, since they are all Romance languages. The Argentine accent also has a very strong Italian cadence, due to the influence of Italian immigrants. If you heard him in Green Book speak some Sicilian Italian, he does a great job. Then Swedish and Norwegian are also very closely related to Danish, as they are all Scandinavian languages. Arabic would definitely be the hardest and most impressive if he learned it fluently.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 well, porteño, english and danish are primarely his "first" languages. his french is very good. his arabic is very accented but that is not a problem. the guy has an amazing talent to learn languages.
When you start with three languages as he did (born in the USA from a danish father, then living in Argentina for the first 10 years of his life) it's not that difficult to learn other languages: He surely got to swedish and norwegian through danish (they are quite similar) and to italian and catalan through spanish (which is closely related to both of them). Learning french could have been quite easy for him too, given that he already spoke two or three romance languages. In these conditions, learning a new language is like crossing a river by jumping from a rock to the next (i.e. the languges you already know). What really outstands in all this is his knwoledge of arabic: that's a language which has very little to do with the other languages he speaks. And that's why I call him a polyglot.
His arabic is better than mine and i'm half algerian. I've seen the excellent movie "Far from Men" and he speak algerian arabic and french. Very impressive.
he isnt only speaking 9 languages but he does this with a very good accent in each one of them! his italian is awesome, his french is really good, I speak 3 languages and understand the 4th and i still have a bad accent so i know its not easy.
@@micamarayvos its also a Nordic tradition to give a wooden horse to young children, often boys. i got one myself that i got for my naming day. mine is white with a painted motif.
1:54 Swedish: "Tack för detta underbara pris. Jag hade en trähäst, som pojke. En röd dalahäst. Tyvärr åt vår hund tre av hästens ben." "Thank you for this wonderful price. I had a woodenhorse, as a boy. A red Dalahorse. Sadly ate our dog three of that horse's legs." His swedish is grammatically perfect and his pronunciation was pretty beautiful.
And at the swedish part I thought "naaah. He reads this off from a damned cheat card taped on the horse"... then he slowly turns the horse showing me that there ain't no f%#ing cheat card!!!
I speak Swedish. Still appreciate the subtitles when watching shows in Norwegian or Danish. (Not to mention Icelandic!)" Changing a few words" is not as easy as you might think if your primary language is not a Scandinavian one.
Hola. Lo adoro. Todos dicen que tenemos acento en Buenos Aires. Obviamente no nos damos cuenta. Cada provincia tiene el suyo. Aunque vivió también en Chaco conserva el tono de la gran ciudad, es uno de nosotros. Lo más divertido es que cuando viene a un partido de fútbol enseguida lo busca la cámara. No sabía que hablaba más de tres idiomas. Un genio!
He is my favorite actor! He’s extremely handsome and talented.He should have one an Oscar and Academy Award for Green Book!!! His acting was exceptional!!!
Agree 100%. My favorite as well. Wonderfully talented yet criminally underrated. He is also an accomplished jazz musician, poet, a painter, a scriptwriter, a director and a photographer. A true renaissance man. He's been nominated 3 times for Best actor and he deserves to win an Oscar.
Wow! Dude is my hero! I don’t believe he’s fluent in all these languages…but makes the effort to memorizes something to say in the host language and executes it very well. The Catalan and Arabic, I’m convinced we’re memorized comments or phrases. Still dude is awesome !
Once you learn two or three you start to generalize aspects of the languages. Grammar has similarities and differences, vocabulary has a lot of similarities depending the procedente of the language (Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan are Latin languages as well as I think 50-70% of English vocabulary). So all this makes it easier to increment the number. If he did that as a kid, even easier, specially to master the pronunciation and accents.
Well, I would not call whatever he said at the end Norwegian, more Danish than anything. However, we Scandinavians mostly understand each other. Our languages are more like hard dialects than anything else. So I guess you could say he speaks three languages there, actually so DO I! Never thought of it that way. I kinda speak 5 languages then in fact.
Impressive , but English , Spanish and Danish were spoken by him since childhood due to living in South America and having Danish and American parents who met in Norway , so Norwegian and Swedish were also likely learned early on , and are of course easier to comprehend for Danish speakers anyway . Once you know Spanish , then other romance languages become so much easier to learn , like French , Italian and Catalan. But you have to show dedication to learn any language , so hats off to him .
With that culture he is qualified to be king of Gondor
Awesome comment!! 👌👌👌
Ya ..not a stupid intendant..
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Qualified for Texas Chainsaw Massacre looool
Gondor has no king.Gondor needs no king.
He actually speaks 10 languages. You forgot the elven one
😅
and westron.
was thinking the same thing
12 - russian languaga
That's the one I was thinking about
His swedish is a bit hesitant but it's perfectly understandable and absolutely correct grammatically. I can't judge his quality in the seven other languages that he apparantely speaks besides english, but I can definitely tell that he's an impressive man.
His Italian was great.
His Spanish (Argentinian accent) to be specific was what impressed me. His Catalan is also very good.
Learning Catalan as a foreigner is a little "extra" to be sure given that speaking Spanish there is perfectly acceptable!
His Italian was almost perfect.
Viggo's way of speaking any language is hesitant.
French is excellent, Spanish perfect, Italian and Catalan on point. And he seems to speak other languages at a high level. This man is so gifted, he is a chameleon. Actor, painter, poet, musician, photographer, scriptwriter, director, producer, poliglot, Viggo Mortensen lives 9 lifes in one. Awesome !
Very awesome!
He did butcher that Arabic but to be fair he was going for a Moroccan dialect which is hard even for other native Arabic speakers.
He made albums with Buckethead lmao
@@zzzzzz69 thanks for sharing
His french is ok not excelent, the man is amazing there is no need to exagerate
His Spanish is literally flawless. Sounds 100% native. Obviously, his English as well.
True story. When Viggo Mortensen was filming for the movie "Captain Fantastic" in Washington state, he had to speak a couple of lines of Chinese. The people making the movie contacted my Chinese teacher (who is not into movies at all) through the language school she was teaching at then. They picked her up in Seattle and drove her to the set in a limo, and she spent a few hours there teaching Viggo the correct pronunciation of the Chinese lines he had to speak, then they drove her back. She got something like $200 for the time she spent teaching him. She had no idea who he was. Later that week, when we met for our Chinese lesson, she told me that she had taught "some Danish actor, his name was like 'Vig' or something" how to say his lines. I was like, "Vig? Do you mean Viggo?!" She said, "Oh yeah, that was it." My eyes about popped out of my head. I asked her, "Do you know how famous he is?!?" She really didn't know. She'd never watched any of the Lord of the Rings movies and had no idea who he was, but she said he was a really nice guy.
How famous is he? I have never seen him in any movie. But him speaking different languages was all right. I also speak many but with horrible accent. I was impressed by his neutral accent in all languages
@@bambinaforever1402 History of Violence, The Road are a couple movies he's been in, also a small role in Lord of the Rings
@@Benni-rp9or I also might suggest to add Alatriste, great movie.
«Tell the lord duke of Enghien that we appreciate his words, but this is Spanish tercio»
@@bambinaforever1402 is this real life? He's fucking Aragorn!
Sometimes the most honest opinions and painting of someone else's character comes from a place of blissful bias and unknowing. I love this was all summed up by her saying he was a really nice guy 😁
His Spanish is absolutely perfect! He has an argetinian accent....
creció hasta los 10 años en Argentina. El español argentino es su lengua materna
is because he is argentinian
@@jsullivan2112 If you're born in Argentina you're also American :)
@@jsullivan2112 American is not universally accepted as USA in Latinamerica
@@jsullivan2112 "universally accepted" => imposed by the U.S.A. and repeated by wannabe countries like Canada.
Viggo Mortensen is one of my very favorite actors. He's so good. I had no idea he could speak many languages fluently. Seriously an impressive guy
I agree.this actor is underrated.imho.he's awesome.💖👏👍😎
Most danes speak multiple languages, I myself speak danish, german, english, some portugeese, greenlandic, some slavic words. And then I can speak with my nordic family ( norway and sweden). Not hard, just needs work.
PS . Got some arabic also, all about trying to fit in and rrspect for other cultures and countries you have lived in.
He's just absolutely adorable when he speaks Swedish! He said he had a wooden horse like that as a child, but unfortunately their dog ate it's legs.
Ah, thank you for the translation! Tak! ( Did I say that right?) 😊
Hey!!! I'm a subscriber
@@MontagZosoIt would be "Tak" in his native Danish. "Tack" in Swedish. (And "Takk" in Norwegian).
Speaking of, the last segment where he supposedly spoke Norwegian was really just Danish. Same words either way, but by pronunciation, definitely Danish.
Aragorn is about 110 years old, he have done a lot of things and learned a lot of languages. He was taught by Elves.
Yeah I don't know who this Viggo Mortensen person is, this is clearly the King of Gondor XD
Elvis taught him some stuff too.
@@michaelharrington75 like what?
@@Roman_Bazhenov How to be "the King".
At the time of the War of the Ring, Aragorn was approximately 88. Lived to 210 so that's something.
Viggo Mortensen is truly a polyglot! An American actor who was raised a few years in Denmark and then a couple of years in Argentina! His Danish father and mother must have traveled a lot! This is why he is fluent in so many languages! A smart actor!
Bueno, y que lleva 15 años viviendo en España con una española. No tiene demasiado mérito. Es trilingue de nacimiento y cuando naces con varias lenguas es mucho más fácil aprender otras. Me encanta el acento argentino pero el suyo me parece feo. Igual es por la influencia de otras lenguas
He definitely had a good time with Christopher Lee.
This man is much more than a great actor.
He's also a writer, producer, director, musician, photographer, painter and poet
He speaks Arabic as if he is Moroccan bravo viggo I have seen him in a movie speak Arabic but I did not think that he do it out of the movies great actor
yea I'm from sa and didn't understand his Arabic till i realized its Moroccan
I didn’t understand a word he said in Arabic, except maybe السلام عليكم! Come on now.
My impression is that he does not speak Arabic fluently or well. When speaking Arabic, he sounds like a drunk Italian.
It would be interesting to get feedback from more Arabic speakers.
He butchered it.. but to be fair even native Arabic speakers struggle with the Moroccan dialect. Still it’s appreciated by the crowd cause the effort itself and pronouncing 3-4 words correctly as a European is impressive enough.
@@davidemmet7343 He butchered it.. but to be fair even native Arabic speakers struggle with the Moroccan dialect. Still it’s appreciated by the crowd cause the effort itself and pronouncing 3-4 words correctly as a European is impressive enough.
The Norwegian was Danish, but still all those languages were impressive.
I came here to say this
No wonder it sounded so weird 😂
Ja det var jo rein dansk 😊
Still 9 if you count his Sindarin :)
Norsk bogmål er den korrekte og eneste rigtige måde at tale dansk.
Vi har tabt evnen til at tale vores eget sprog.
His English, Spanish, Italian, French and Catalan are excellent!
And danish 😊
Catalan more or less, but anyway he is able to speak it.
I only know english and swedish out of these. His Swedish was a bit forced but ok still. Would need a month of 100% commitment and he´d be fluent in that too.
Yeah, let’s say that he can recite short speeches in many languages. He is an actor after all.
@@quaestiox Do you not realize how painfully obvious it is when someone acts mad about other peoples' talents? We all know you are a loser who is just frustrated in your own lack of ability.
What I find impressive is not that he speaks each of these languages but that he can do so conversationally, in a fairly fluid way, with what is, to my ear, an appropriate accent and cadence for each.
His Swedish was really not very good but he still makes himself understood.
I speak swedish french and understand norvegian. All of these languages he dont speak good
The face of the lady behind him when he’s speaking Catalan. Priceless 😱😂
There's more too, not only does he speak all these languages, he's an accomplished jazz musician, I think he even has an album (can't remember what instrument he plays though) I think he paints too.
He truly is a renaissance man
And he’s published books of poetry and photography!
100% Correct. Viggo is also a scriptwriter, a director, a poet and a photographer. One of the most talented people on the planet.
he is not only handsome but also intelligent and a great poliglot, I have always loved this man❤️❤️
Polyglot, but yes!
I keep finding more and more reasons to fall in love with him
With a sweet adorable accent from North Europe ☺️
Well i can speak English and Australian !!! 🤪
I can kinda speak english
Don't tell his wife!!!
I spent 3 years trying to learn just one other language other than English and wasn’t even slightly proficient. People like Viggo blow my mind. The same goes for people with natural proficiency with music too. I’ve tried learning no less than 5 different instruments, one for as long as 4 years, and I could never understand how to read sheet music or play even slightly well.
You have to practice a little more, It's all about PRACTICE.
Maybe it's a prejudice but native English speakers are not exposed to other languages as much as native Spanish speakers for example. We see many movies in English and hear a lot of songs which makes English a very familiar language for us, also Spanish and Italian languages are very similar so it's even easier for us.
@ Oh I totally agree. Especially in the United States most kids are barely taught anything in the way of a second language until nearly high school. Most other countries, even Canada with French, are exposed to other languages much earlier on. It’s a whole lot harder to fluently learn other languages and for them to be natural at an older age. I wish that could change in the U.S. It’s a little arrogant to just assume everyone else should just learn your own language, and then you don’t learn theirs. I’ve always been pretty naturally inept with a few things like languages, math, and reading music. But I think had I started with a 2nd or 3rd language at a very young age, I could have learned them pretty well. But today? Phew, I think it may be a little late. The best I can do are a few short phrases or niceties. But I do make it a point to learn those when I visit another country, out of respect. Things like please, thank you, excuse me, congratulations, those kinds of things.
The only way you really learn a language fast is by using it in real life. Be it because you live somewhere the language is spoken, or because you use it for work or some other reason. If you went to another country and had to use it every day you would learn it in a matter of months. At least to a degree that lets you do your job. And that's without cheating, if you just hang out with english speakers or avoid local people you will not learn anything. And you will learn how people really speak, which is usually not the way instructors do.
If you’re not proficient after 3 years you’re simply using the wrong method. Use comprehensible input, not textbooks and memorisation
Perfect human being right there. Truly a King of humans.
Nope
King of Gondor *
@@Dasani_water_drinker How many languages do you speak? Are you also a jazz musician (Viggo had his own band), a scriptwriter, a director, a poet, a photographer and a painter like Viggo Mortensen is? When you have accomplished even 10% of what this incredibly talented man has in his life, maybe you can make a comment. Until then STFU.
His Arabic is broken, but at least he dared to try. Impressive.
Yeah, I whole hardheartedly agree with you. Way too many (especially) English speakers don't even try. One has to accept that when we learn a new language, we're suddenly illiterate for a moment and that's fine because it's in the spirit of learning.
There less avtors who can succeed and try speak good arabic. My fam speaks maori and arabic
His Arabic is way better than mine and I am Arabic. I was born and raised in America and both of my parents worked so I never spoke Arabic growing up. I only know a tiny bit. When I try to speak Arabic I can never get through a sentence without using English words.
What you need is someone to chat with in Arabic, I can be that person, it is called language exchange and I do it all the time@@NC1195_
He is not speaking Norwegian in the last clip. He is speaking Danish. But he might be talking to Norwegians, they would understand what he was saying :)
Thanks, you noticed that too.
Bokmål is essentially Danish with Norwegian flavor after all. 😉
Some of us call Bokmål for 'Gammel Dansk' :)
Yeah, came to the comments to say this..
@@Thorkitty19 True but thats just a written language
I can confirm, his English is good 👏🏻
😂
Wow, his Italian is good. His pronunciation is on point.
Yeah, although he was using notes it's clear he knows the language really well. :O :D
It's very unexpected that his Italian, Arabic and Spanish are all much better than his Swedish, which is the most similar one to his native Danish!
@@svampius2448 In the Spanish segment he says that he spent the first 10 years of his life in Argentina. He even ends the segment drinking mate!
If you can speak Spanish with an Argentinian accent; Italian will be just like ehh...
@@gregmendoza7394 not at all , as argentinian speaking italian, you have to study it as a new language
The look on the lady's face behind him when he was giving an award speech in perfect Catalan, which only around 7 million people in the world can even speak, was priceless! I can see in her head "holy s!@# I thought he was some dumb actor 😳". Viggo is simply THE MAN!
He's Aragorn, son of Arathorn.
I think it's not exact, as Catalan is spoken in some other regions in Spain (Valencia, Balearic island, and the oriental part of Aragon). My case is the last one.
She'd love to be his Arwen.
@@javierwesahst2700 don't forget Andorra, where is the official language, Alger, Perpignan...also, he is dating/married with a Catalan actress, Ariadna Gil.
Catalan: More like 9.5 million native speiakers - in three autonomous regions of Spain and a total of four countries in Europe.
Absolutely fantastic! What a mind.
His Italian is better than most native Italian speakers
XD True!
haha yes
doesn't hold a candle to Brad Pitt though...
@@springplus300arrivederci😂
@@springplus300 BAWNGIORNO
One of the best actors in the world one of my favorites. Flawless Spanish and French.
A wonderful actor, an amazing person and speaks all those languages! 😍 It's not suprise he was chosen as Gondor's king 😍
I've loved his energy from the very first time I saw a movie he was in.
Surprised this didn't include his Russian. He speaks pretty good Russian which he learned to a reasonable level of proficiency (or improved, at least, I forget how much he spoke beforehand) for the movie Eastern Promises.
What a great movie that was. I loved Eastern Promises. The scene in the steam bath was amazing.
simply expected of the King of Gondor
Didn’t expect to be any more impressed with this amazing actor but yet I’m now speechless!!
the last one he was speaking danish as well, you can hear it on the pronunciations of the words, but he was talking to norwegian people and on norwegian television.
He is so attractive soft and gentle if asmr was a person 😍 French Arabic wow
What a quietly impressive man. I admire him.
His French was perfect! Actually sounded like locals. Wow
Nothing makes people more excited than hearing their celebrity hero speaking their language. I cannot explain to you how amazing it is for us. It shows they care a lot and it's as close as we'll get to feeling as famous as them.
His danish was close to perfect!
I know he is of danish origin, but I can't imagine he speaks it very often...
Very intelligent skilled guy! 👌👍
He didn't speak Norwegian, he spoke Danish, but the subtitles were in Norwegian.
Meh, the Nordic languages are on a spectrum, know one and you know them all.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 I beg to differ, you may understand the languages (Norwegian and Swedish in this case), but writing and speaking is a completely different aspect of knowing languages.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 Not true at all, I'm speaking as a Dane.
@@ad_astraperaspera I don't think they should be counted as separate languages, just like Australian and American English are still considered English even though their mutual intelligibility and spelling differ. The Nordic language is artificially divided by politics.
@@abrahamedelstein4806 With all due respect, I think you mix your terms. Nordic is used to describe the countries and territories of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. These places have very different languages. Finnish is even in a different language family. The other languages were one language with different dialects long ago. Now, however, they are so different that they are considered distinct languages.
I would like to know more about his technique in how to learn so many languages. English and Argentinian Spanish are his native tongues and obviously Danish too. But the others, how did he do it, and at that high level?
Italian, Catalan, and to a lesser extent French, are very easy once you know Spanish, since they are all Romance languages. The Argentine accent also has a very strong Italian cadence, due to the influence of Italian immigrants. If you heard him in Green Book speak some Sicilian Italian, he does a great job. Then Swedish and Norwegian are also very closely related to Danish, as they are all Scandinavian languages. Arabic would definitely be the hardest and most impressive if he learned it fluently.
that is a gift. i only speak 4, and some very badly... he is a natural.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 well, porteño, english and danish are primarely his "first" languages. his french is very good. his arabic is very accented but that is not a problem. the guy has an amazing talent to learn languages.
I have to keep reminding myself that Viggo considers Spanish to be his most comfortable language.
He makes them ALL seem like #1.
Incredible. His pronunciation, accent, and grammer are excellent.
Fantastico falar tantas línguas. Alem de ser excelente ator !
OMG ...I'm so impressed by this noble gentleman. Love him.
How can anyone learn so many languages -- Viggo Mortensen is an incredible actor, but also an incredible man!
When you start with three languages as he did (born in the USA from a danish father, then living in Argentina for the first 10 years of his life) it's not that difficult to learn other languages: He surely got to swedish and norwegian through danish (they are quite similar) and to italian and catalan through spanish (which is closely related to both of them). Learning french could have been quite easy for him too, given that he already spoke two or three romance languages. In these conditions, learning a new language is like crossing a river by jumping from a rock to the next (i.e. the languges you already know). What really outstands in all this is his knwoledge of arabic: that's a language which has very little to do with the other languages he speaks. And that's why I call him a polyglot.
His arabic is better than mine and i'm half algerian. I've seen the excellent movie "Far from Men" and he speak algerian arabic and french. Very impressive.
he is a wonderful actor and very talented man. I have seen Viggo in many great movies but have not seen this one. is 'Far from Men' a good movie also?
@@albertvanular433 Yes, Far From Men is a very good Western and an underrated film.
Talented man, just wonderfully talented and yet - still humble
Most impressive was Catalan, very little known language and it looked like he was improvising. Almost as natural as his Spanish and Dutch
His wife is Catalan, actually. He spends a lot of time here in Barcelona.
Dutch?
he isnt only speaking 9 languages but he does this with a very good accent in each one of them! his italian is awesome, his french is really good, I speak 3 languages and understand the 4th and i still have a bad accent so i know its not easy.
Amazing and dekightful! An incredibly talented actor, writer, director, photographer and linguist. Spare time? What spare time!
You forgot Musician. and painter. He is also a jazz musician as well and has had some of his paintings displayed in various art galleries.
He can also speak Elvish.
Such a talented and humble guy!! Eastern Promises has to be one of the greatest gangster movies of all time!!
Love that movie. The steam bath scene is amazing.
One of my fav actors - very talented
his spanish, italian and catalan are pretty much spot on, even the in terms of accent.
such an actor...that is soo underrated...he has to be given more roles to explore his passion and intensity...
He is a Great Actor and also a SMART Actor !!!!
1:53 I would like to know why he was holding a metal horse
Is the award from stockholm film festival, you should check the Guldbagge award hahaha that's a weird one.
@@micamarayvos its also a Nordic tradition to give a wooden horse to young children, often boys. i got one myself that i got for my naming day. mine is white with a painted motif.
He is absolutely superb just amazing very inspiring
Your kick ass Vigo🤙🤘 Big shout out to you from Dallas, TX USA👋
1:54 Swedish: "Tack för detta underbara pris. Jag hade en trähäst, som pojke. En röd dalahäst. Tyvärr åt vår hund tre av hästens ben."
"Thank you for this wonderful price. I had a woodenhorse, as a boy. A red Dalahorse. Sadly ate our dog three of that horse's legs."
His swedish is grammatically perfect and his pronunciation was pretty beautiful.
Thanks so much! I'm proud of your translation skills!
Thanks so much! I learn Swedish as beginner. I understood some words (häst, röd, hund, tack) but not the entire text. So thanks again!
I knew about Viggo's Argentinian upbringing and had heard his Argentinian-twanged Spanish many times. But he really surprised me with Catalán
And at the swedish part I thought "naaah. He reads this off from a damned cheat card taped on the horse"... then he slowly turns the horse showing me that there ain't no f%#ing cheat card!!!
Since he speaks danish he is just changing his pronunciation and then trying to remember a couple of words.
I speak Swedish. Still appreciate the subtitles when watching shows in Norwegian or Danish. (Not to mention Icelandic!)" Changing a few words" is not as easy as you might think if your primary language is not a Scandinavian one.
I loved his role in the Green book portraying Tony Lip
So many talents. 💖
That was truly impressive!
His swedish is ... not perfect! But definitely understandable! And his Italian is very good!
I'd say it's perfekt. Although with an accent and very slow.
@@beorlingo that means its not perfect
@@prometheus705 to me, perfect is correct grammar and a sizable vocabulary for fluency.
In the coronation scene in Return of the King, did you guys know that he made that tune he sang? It's in the credits at the end.
Meu avo falava 9 linguas incluso russo...minha mae era de 1910 imagina ele c idade dele naquela época...maravilhoso...eu sou pessima p Linguas....
Você fala algum ?
Hola. Lo adoro.
Todos dicen que tenemos acento en Buenos Aires. Obviamente no nos damos cuenta. Cada provincia tiene el suyo.
Aunque vivió también en Chaco conserva el tono de la gran ciudad, es uno de nosotros.
Lo más divertido es que cuando viene a un partido de fútbol enseguida lo busca la cámara.
No sabía que hablaba más de tres idiomas. Un genio!
Wow he's not only handsome and good actor, but also does it in 9 languagues. What a man! 💕👍🥰
Viggo is handsome in all languages.
Wow this is amazing. And I hear he is a really nice guy too
He is my favorite actor! He’s extremely handsome and talented.He should have one an Oscar and Academy Award for Green Book!!! His acting was exceptional!!!
Agree 100%. My favorite as well. Wonderfully talented yet criminally underrated. He is also an accomplished jazz musician, poet, a painter, a scriptwriter, a director and a photographer. A true renaissance man. He's been nominated 3 times for Best actor and he deserves to win an Oscar.
Admirations! Intelligence and charisma at the same time! 😊
Viggo is an amazing linguist. Brilliant man.
Bom Dia SãoPauloBrasil
Lindo, ótimo ator 😍
Não conheço ""Danes""
Parabéns pelo canal!
Wow! Dude is my hero! I don’t believe he’s fluent in all these languages…but makes the effort to memorizes something to say in the host language and executes it very well. The Catalan and Arabic, I’m convinced we’re memorized comments or phrases. Still dude is awesome !
His partner since 2009 is a catalan actress, so he probably speaks catalan.
Had absolutely no idea. Massively impressive.
His voice sounds so natural in Italian.
Qué tío!! Guapo,buen actor y políglota 😊😊
His Italian is wow!
His Danish is flawless! Absolutely floored
i wounder why lol, might be cuz he is danish? maby :D
@@Karnalzion Yes, that's the joke.
WHAAAAAAAATTTT HIS ARGENTINIAN ACCENT IS SO CLEAN I cant believe after all those years away from the country he still has perfect manner of speaking
He didn't speak Norwegian, but if you know Danish and just pronounce the words more distinctly you basically speak Norwegian 😉
@@menestrello6159 yes surely, but his pronunciation is very good, especially if you consider that he's danish american
@@menestrello6159 you could never compare.
Though of course as you know, most Norwegians would say God Jul, not Fredelig Jul, though both are techncially ok :)
Once you learn two or three you start to generalize aspects of the languages. Grammar has similarities and differences, vocabulary has a lot of similarities depending the procedente of the language (Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan are Latin languages as well as I think 50-70% of English vocabulary). So all this makes it easier to increment the number. If he did that as a kid, even easier, specially to master the pronunciation and accents.
What a legend
The title should be, "Viggo Mortensen Mumbles in 9 Languages" 😅 I do love Viggo.
I don't know about the nine languages,but I know that he is a wonderful actor, very much apreciated!
I love Viggo. His Spanish is excellent with no accent at all. Perfect 👌🏼
Jesus, this dude is a genius at languages. Also happens to be an amazing underrated actor. Love this guy.
Viggo speaking Spanish was Gangster.
Well, I would not call whatever he said at the end Norwegian, more Danish than anything.
However, we Scandinavians mostly understand each other. Our languages are more like hard dialects than anything else.
So I guess you could say he speaks three languages there, actually so DO I! Never thought of it that way.
I kinda speak 5 languages then in fact.
Impressive , but English , Spanish and Danish were spoken by him since childhood due to living in South America and having Danish and American parents who met in Norway , so Norwegian and Swedish were also likely learned early on , and are of course easier to comprehend for Danish speakers anyway . Once you know Spanish , then other romance languages become so much easier to learn , like French , Italian and Catalan. But you have to show dedication to learn any language , so hats off to him .
His "Norwegian" was not Norwegian either. It was just plain Danish. But yea, very impressive still.
A genius....so gifted.
Viggo is just amazing!!❀❁❀••••
He is one of my fav actors in Hollywood. He did a great job in the movie hidalgo
He can speak any languages, he wants. His secret is, that he wears "the ring of languages" (-》"one ring to rule them all").