I made the mistake of watching a spanish interview with him and within a minute of the interview they explained he was from Argentina. I didn't get the joke until that moment 😅
I feel the point Olly was making is that these are British, Irish, and American actors, which know other languages. Christopher Waltz's English is miles better than any of their second languages.
Hey, just to be clear, Viggo isn't speaking Norwegian in that clip.. he's speaking Danish, which makes sense seeing as he is half Danish and has a Danish name.
Yeah, it’s the instructions on the bottle of bleach for if someone has swallowed it type of vocabulary that suddenly becomes important. That’s what should be priority for teaching in schools too, where’s the loo, I’ve got food poisoning, where’s the embassy. I’ve been accused of XXX, I’ve accidentally swallowed XXX , someone stole my papers. , I didn’t see the lady in the big hat, etc, I’m sure kids would pay more attention than endlessly droning on about social issues in other countries, which is all my language teacher did. We got enough of that in the news and our other classes.
Someone who appears to do accents etc very well is Johnny Depp. His Irish in Le Chocolat and is British accents are so good you would never know he was American. Of course he cans speak French but seems shy about it. I would really love to see an analysis of his linguistic skills.
One last actor who seems to be extremely overlooked by this kind of videos: Sir Christopher Lee. As a former secret agent (and inspirer of the most famous fictional spy ever), he speaks fluently several languages including French (he even played in a French movie without being dubbed), Spanish, German (though he claimed he never learnt it), Italian and many of Tolkien's made-up languages.
If I remember correctly Sir Christopher has dubbed King Haggard in the Last Unicorn in most languages... and he's downright scary in the German version... and as a native speaker I don't find German in itself scary. Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
Sir Lee, Jean Reno and Xavier Bardem have one point in common. They all dubbed themselves a lot of dubbed versions of their movies, including Reno dubbing himself for the French version of Leon. It's actually harder than you think dubbing yourself in your own language!!
My husband speaks some French from growing up in Canada and continuing his studies through high school in the US. The funniest Fench idiom (imo) is the equivalent to the English “it’s raining cats and dogs”. I can’t say/write it in French as I don’t know it, but I know the literal translation. Basically, “raining like a pi$$ing cow”
Would you please do a segment on the Locust Valley Lockjaw accent? It’s very unusual and I don’t know if anyone speaks with it now. Examples-Thurston Howell from Gilligan’s Island or Gloria Upson from Mame.
This is a very interesting channel. It goes the usual way though, grammar exercises, oh the horror. And what if other people do like doing them and search for resources about it, then what - forever condemned to listen how people berate their interests...
This doesn’t involve evil characters, but there is a 2017 movie called Young Karl Marx, almost all of the lead actors are trilingual, naturally speaking German when they’re in Germany, French when they’re in France, and English when they are in England.
(14:00+)People who speak English will always switch to English as soon as they notice or assume that someone isn't native. It doesn't even have to be conscious. Whatever it is, they think it's beneficial when a lot of the time it isn't (my wife isn't good at English, she's way more familiar with my native language - she speaks it every day, after all, for English she needs to "warm up" before she can communicate). And some people have a Really Hard Time switching to their own native language even after a) they realize that the other person can speak their native language pretty well, or b) they've actually been asked to switch. Some seem unable to do so. They may try, but then before they know it they switch to English again.
I was listening to the video while going to sleep, then i heard my native language at 5:25 and thought that maybe an ad of some game suddenly showed up, because the accent sounded very ai like (still understandable tho with only minor mistakes)
Sono trilingue, cresciuto parlando italiano, russo e francese, e quando sento questi attori parlare in queste tre lingue... mi viene da tapparmi le orecchie. 🇮🇹 Я - трилингв, с детства говорящий на итальянском, русском и французском, и когда я слышу, как все эти актёры говорят на этих трёх языках, мне хочется заткнуть уши. 🇷🇺 Je suis trilingue, parlant depuis l'enfance l'italien, le russe et le français, et quand j'entends ces acteurs parler dans ces trois langues, j'ai envie de me boucher les oreilles... 🇫🇷
I know Tom studded Classics as I also studied Classics and Latin and Attic Greek are a must and you get a bit of a difficult kick over whichever you get first. Greek does not have Ablative case and Latin does - Latin assigns bits and bobs of grammatical functions from the Greek Genitive and Accusative cases to Ablative whiiile also still having genitive and accusative keep other functions - so the Greek Genitive absolute becomes Ablative absolute in Latin - among other things. Whichever you learn first will make the other more difficult due to the absence or presence of the ablative creating grammatical duties of cases inconsistent from one to the other. I got Greek first.. Also modern Greek vs Ancient feels a bit like old English vs modern only with fewer extinct letters like the thorn. Though modern Greek can also have that feel when you look at the extinct letters from Byzantine Greek. Classics puts you through a linguistic ringer and you still have to have a bit of Spanish, French, Italian, and German to have access to the scholarship of Classical scholars who don’t have their works put to English as anyone that deeply into Classics likely already knows the peripheral languages of most intense secondary scholarship. United States founders were also Classists who easily navigated Greek, Latin, and many languages on the continent. My own study of Classics has infected me with a voracious appetite for linguistic acquisition. I prefer grammatical mechanics first - see the moving parts and gears before the overlay of interactive relevant vocabulary. I almost certainly prefer this because of looking at declension and case charts for Greek and Latin … and the absolute unhinged mayhem of ancient greek participles - if you don’t collect those like your a-team Pokémon, you will be set adrift to perish in the Aegean with out even decent tools for a dramatic, woeful death speech. Anyway Tom amuses me for Classics, participating in a favourite past time of opening doors like a velociraptor, and my 15 year old cat who predates the Thor movies is named Loki - I got him the year before Thor came out and his previous name had beed Cicero when I adopted him. My Classics cat turned Nordic mythological deity right before those movies still amuses me. He is a cute playful ginger-cat with puss in boots sparkly eyes. My other cat Ronin always turns up when I have my nose in Thucydides - the speeches of which are the most difficult in antiquity because he treats grammar like a trick-shot gymnastics show and still has the most amusing arrogance “I wasn’t actually there to hear Peracles speak but this is what he could of said *insert difficult and eloquent speech* - “my recounting is a possession for all time” … the he goes to like in self-imposed exile in Sparta admiring Brasidas for taking down his rival Athenian general while also dying. The hero cults for Brasidas and the implied political affinity are fascinating.
@ My highschool had neither. I had ancient Greek in university- the class was quite full because the professor was popular and it was a 5 week course. Greek 2 was a semester Nd there were 10 of us. Only three were in the Greek 3 class. Small class sizes were common at the small private university since student to professor ration was about 11 to 1. My professor would troll me over my Lakedaimonian affinity when reading Xenophon.
@kristinrburkett interesting. Well I had some friends that went to Classics in college too. As for me I took a modern languages major (french + Spanish + Turkish) but quit a few months in and switched to history. I'm currently learning Russian. Oh I had no experience of such a small class. In my country doesn't matter if it's public or private... usually we have 20 to 50 students per subject (depending on which ones you take)... I'm in Portugal. Well it is very interesting to hear about people with some common educational background.
@ The small class size is incredibly unusual here. I went to a small private university founded in 1780 - Transylvania - maybe 1,100 students - smaller than many high schools. Classics was established as a major my 2nd of 4 years. I studied Spanish before uni and lamented having no latin. My school only had two classics professors save for the history and philosophy dept covering a couple of courses. My chem and organic chemistry courses had more like 40 people because of the lab auditorium and it being a common requirement. For the most part class sizes were between 12 and 30 in most cases. This cultivated a personal relationship with professors and lots of personal guidance - several of my professors are still dear friends to me. Graduate school was a large university of California school which was massive and cold in comparison even though grad schools programs are smaller with closer professor relationships the undergrad. My school was just small and odd. I study Japanese, Ancient Attic Greek, Classical Greek, Modern Greek, Doric Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, and need to work on Mandarin. I adore languages and new alphabets.
The best way to learn a kanguage is to go to the country where they speak it and spend some time there. And, man, you talk a lot in that video. Viggo Mortessen is also good at learning a new language, because he already speaks several languages, regqrdless of the fact that the languagesay ne related or not.
Explain Merovingian from the matrix.. if French speakers got that crappy French accent when speaking English then does that not mean that English got that crappy English accent when trying to speak French..? Honestly have got to know.. and it does involve a girl true but not the point I’m legit curious?
It can’t be on that chart because it is about the relationship of languages to English. If you were starting from a different base language then English could be on it, but the other languages would be reshuffled, it’s about how far removed they are from the original base language, because English is a mix of many languages, that dictates why the ones which appear in the quicker categories are where they are, most of them have many common words, sounds and structures with English.. The further Away ones is where there’s much less overlap. If you start with Chinese mandarin and rewrite the chart you get a very different result.
@ OH, that makes a lot more sense now that you’ve explained it. It would be fascinating to see/know how it would be setup from different base languages. :)
Anyone in the media in the UK went to private school and they teach languages from an early age, it's no real surprise. To go a private school, you have to be rich. so he didn't pull himself up by his bootstraps.
I don't know if you take requests but I've always been curious about constructed languages, some took inspiration from other languages like how elvish sounds like finnish and na'vi sounds like mauri or other Polynesian languages. OH! Can you make how hard is greek (mondern greek) and do u have greek stories?
Consider yourself lucky. In fact most people don't speak more than 1. If You grew up in a country like Yours(by Your nick i'm assuming, it's Netherlands) bi or tri linguality is nothing that would rise an eyebrow, because there is a lot of tourism, immigration and couple binding between neighbouring countries. I grew up in an isolated shithole, and trust me it takes an effort and a lot of determination to learn a foreign language if You don't have resources, tutor or a native to speak to in Your target language to correct Your errors, so Yes, even bilingual is an achievement on its own.
For those who don't know, Viggo Mortensen's Spanish can fool Spanish speakers into thinking he is native. He is that good at it.
I made the mistake of watching a spanish interview with him and within a minute of the interview they explained he was from Argentina. I didn't get the joke until that moment 😅
Not that hard when you grow up in Argentina
Hes not fooling anyone. He IS native
Viggo grew up in Argentina, so he speaks impeccable Argentine Spanish.
And Italian with a beautiful Argentinian accent
These people made the best of their roles by diving into languages.
What? No Christoph Waltz?
I feel the point Olly was making is that these are British, Irish, and American actors, which know other languages. Christopher Waltz's English is miles better than any of their second languages.
@@Mikefizzled Viggo is literally half Danish
@@lukasrba1 That's a solid point. The split in my head is that Viggo and the others all started in American films.
Hey, just to be clear, Viggo isn't speaking Norwegian in that clip.. he's speaking Danish, which makes sense seeing as he is half Danish and has a Danish name.
Yeah, I was confused about that for a moment. I hardly understand spoken Norwegian, so I thought for a for a sec that I had suddenly improved 😅
Was about to write the same.
"Evil Actors"
Tom Hiddleston is typing...
he’s so hot as loki 💃🏻
😂
I have several languages I call 'menu languages'. I can mostly understand menu items, ask for a toilet, contact police and emergency services, etc.
Yeah, it’s the instructions on the bottle of bleach for if someone has swallowed it type of vocabulary that suddenly becomes important. That’s what should be priority for teaching in schools too, where’s the loo, I’ve got food poisoning, where’s the embassy. I’ve been accused of XXX, I’ve accidentally swallowed XXX , someone stole my papers. , I didn’t see the lady in the big hat, etc, I’m sure kids would pay more attention than endlessly droning on about social issues in other countries, which is all my language teacher did. We got enough of that in the news and our other classes.
You've just left Christoph Waltz out!
And what Marvel / DC role did he play?
@@jmwild22 you dont need to play a marvel / DC role to be famous
@@jmwild22 "5 villains...."
I was waiting for him
did you made a video about modern greek?
John Malkovich spoke French in the movie The Sheltering Sky co-starred with Debra Winger
Someone who appears to do accents etc very well is Johnny Depp. His Irish in Le Chocolat and is British accents are so good you would never know he was American. Of course he cans speak French but seems shy about it. I would really love to see an analysis of his linguistic skills.
One last actor who seems to be extremely overlooked by this kind of videos: Sir Christopher Lee. As a former secret agent (and inspirer of the most famous fictional spy ever), he speaks fluently several languages including French (he even played in a French movie without being dubbed), Spanish, German (though he claimed he never learnt it), Italian and many of Tolkien's made-up languages.
If I remember correctly Sir Christopher has dubbed King Haggard in the Last Unicorn in most languages... and he's downright scary in the German version... and as a native speaker I don't find German in itself scary.
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
@@RaoulKunz1 Neither do I: I often listen to romantic lieder and it's beautiful.
Sir Lee, Jean Reno and Xavier Bardem have one point in common. They all dubbed themselves a lot of dubbed versions of their movies, including Reno dubbing himself for the French version of Leon. It's actually harder than you think dubbing yourself in your own language!!
I enjoy learning languages and know quite a few. Speaking has always been my weakness.
My husband speaks some French from growing up in Canada and continuing his studies through high school in the US. The funniest Fench idiom (imo) is the equivalent to the English “it’s raining cats and dogs”. I can’t say/write it in French as I don’t know it, but I know the literal translation.
Basically, “raining like a pi$$ing cow”
Would you please do a segment on the Locust Valley Lockjaw accent? It’s very unusual and I don’t know if anyone speaks with it now. Examples-Thurston Howell from Gilligan’s Island or Gloria Upson from Mame.
What about Christoph Waltz?
This is a very interesting channel. It goes the usual way though, grammar exercises, oh the horror. And what if other people do like doing them and search for resources about it, then what - forever condemned to listen how people berate their interests...
Could you do a vid about the languages of Papua New Guinea?
As norwegian i am impressed
This doesn’t involve evil characters, but there is a 2017 movie called Young Karl Marx, almost all of the lead actors are trilingual, naturally speaking German when they’re in Germany, French when they’re in France, and English when they are in England.
(14:00+)People who speak English will always switch to English as soon as they notice or assume that someone isn't native. It doesn't even have to be conscious. Whatever it is, they think it's beneficial when a lot of the time it isn't (my wife isn't good at English, she's way more familiar with my native language - she speaks it every day, after all, for English she needs to "warm up" before she can communicate).
And some people have a Really Hard Time switching to their own native language even after a) they realize that the other person can speak their native language pretty well, or b) they've actually been asked to switch. Some seem unable to do so. They may try, but then before they know it they switch to English again.
Fun Fact: Viggo Mortensen's native language is both English and Danish.
I was listening to the video while going to sleep, then i heard my native language at 5:25 and thought that maybe an ad of some game suddenly showed up, because the accent sounded very ai like (still understandable tho with only minor mistakes)
Right? His pronouciation wasn't bad but it lacked a natural flow
Sono trilingue, cresciuto parlando italiano, russo e francese, e quando sento questi attori parlare in queste tre lingue... mi viene da tapparmi le orecchie. 🇮🇹
Я - трилингв, с детства говорящий на итальянском, русском и французском, и когда я слышу, как все эти актёры говорят на этих трёх языках, мне хочется заткнуть уши. 🇷🇺
Je suis trilingue, parlant depuis l'enfance l'italien, le russe et le français, et quand j'entends ces acteurs parler dans ces trois langues, j'ai envie de me boucher les oreilles... 🇫🇷
Sidney Swiney speaks Russian an Spanish
I speak faster Chinese than Fassbaender speaks German, but I am still struggling with 中文 quite a bit. 😂
I lost my motivation for learning languages after over 15 years of deep dive into the matter
I know Tom studded Classics as I also studied Classics and Latin and Attic Greek are a must and you get a bit of a difficult kick over whichever you get first. Greek does not have Ablative case and Latin does - Latin assigns bits and bobs of grammatical functions from the Greek Genitive and Accusative cases to Ablative whiiile also still having genitive and accusative keep other functions - so the Greek Genitive absolute becomes Ablative absolute in Latin - among other things. Whichever you learn first will make the other more difficult due to the absence or presence of the ablative creating grammatical duties of cases inconsistent from one to the other. I got Greek first.. Also modern Greek vs Ancient feels a bit like old English vs modern only with fewer extinct letters like the thorn. Though modern Greek can also have that feel when you look at the extinct letters from Byzantine Greek. Classics puts you through a linguistic ringer and you still have to have a bit of Spanish, French, Italian, and German to have access to the scholarship of Classical scholars who don’t have their works put to English as anyone that deeply into Classics likely already knows the peripheral languages of most intense secondary scholarship. United States founders were also Classists who easily navigated Greek, Latin, and many languages on the continent. My own study of Classics has infected me with a voracious appetite for linguistic acquisition. I prefer grammatical mechanics first - see the moving parts and gears before the overlay of interactive relevant vocabulary. I almost certainly prefer this because of looking at declension and case charts for Greek and Latin … and the absolute unhinged mayhem of ancient greek participles - if you don’t collect those like your a-team Pokémon, you will be set adrift to perish in the Aegean with out even decent tools for a dramatic, woeful death speech. Anyway Tom amuses me for Classics, participating in a favourite past time of opening doors like a velociraptor, and my 15 year old cat who predates the Thor movies is named Loki - I got him the year before Thor came out and his previous name had beed Cicero when I adopted him. My Classics cat turned Nordic mythological deity right before those movies still amuses me. He is a cute playful ginger-cat with puss in boots sparkly eyes. My other cat Ronin always turns up when I have my nose in Thucydides - the speeches of which are the most difficult in antiquity because he treats grammar like a trick-shot gymnastics show and still has the most amusing arrogance “I wasn’t actually there to hear Peracles speak but this is what he could of said *insert difficult and eloquent speech* - “my recounting is a possession for all time” … the he goes to like in self-imposed exile in Sparta admiring Brasidas for taking down his rival Athenian general while also dying. The hero cults for Brasidas and the implied political affinity are fascinating.
I took latin in highschool. Sadly there weren't enough students to open the Greek classes.
@ My highschool had neither. I had ancient Greek in university- the class was quite full because the professor was popular and it was a 5 week course. Greek 2 was a semester Nd there were 10 of us. Only three were in the Greek 3 class. Small class sizes were common at the small private university since student to professor ration was about 11 to 1. My professor would troll me over my Lakedaimonian affinity when reading Xenophon.
@kristinrburkett interesting. Well I had some friends that went to Classics in college too. As for me I took a modern languages major (french + Spanish + Turkish) but quit a few months in and switched to history. I'm currently learning Russian. Oh I had no experience of such a small class. In my country doesn't matter if it's public or private... usually we have 20 to 50 students per subject (depending on which ones you take)... I'm in Portugal. Well it is very interesting to hear about people with some common educational background.
@ The small class size is incredibly unusual here. I went to a small private university founded in 1780 - Transylvania - maybe 1,100 students - smaller than many high schools. Classics was established as a major my 2nd of 4 years. I studied Spanish before uni and lamented having no latin. My school only had two classics professors save for the history and philosophy dept covering a couple of courses. My chem and organic chemistry courses had more like 40 people because of the lab auditorium and it being a common requirement. For the most part class sizes were between 12 and 30 in most cases. This cultivated a personal relationship with professors and lots of personal guidance - several of my professors are still dear friends to me. Graduate school was a large university of California school which was massive and cold in comparison even though grad schools programs are smaller with closer professor relationships the undergrad. My school was just small and odd. I study Japanese, Ancient Attic Greek, Classical Greek, Modern Greek, Doric Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, and need to work on Mandarin. I adore languages and new alphabets.
The best way to learn a kanguage is to go to the country where they speak it and spend some time there.
And, man, you talk a lot in that video.
Viggo Mortessen is also good at learning a new language, because he already speaks several languages, regqrdless of the fact that the languagesay ne related or not.
Mystery role has been reported to be a Russian villain so claps for Olly
I kinda tuned out at that sorry attempt to pronounce "любовь побеждает ненависть" 🤷🏻♂️
Explain Merovingian from the matrix.. if French speakers got that crappy French accent when speaking English then does that not mean that English got that crappy English accent when trying to speak French..? Honestly have got to know.. and it does involve a girl true but not the point I’m legit curious?
I wonder where English would be placed… 13:10
It can’t be on that chart because it is about the relationship of languages to English. If you were starting from a different base language then English could be on it, but the other languages would be reshuffled, it’s about how far removed they are from the original base language, because English is a mix of many languages, that dictates why the ones which appear in the quicker categories are where they are, most of them have many common words, sounds and structures with English.. The further Away ones is where there’s much less overlap. If you start with Chinese mandarin and rewrite the chart you get a very different result.
@ OH, that makes a lot more sense now that you’ve explained it.
It would be fascinating to see/know how it would be setup from different base languages. :)
So, no Irish on the FSI list.
The actors are evil? Uhhhhhmmmmm
Marvel used to be good. Nowadays its kinda jank. Hope they can bring it back to its former glory
Anyone in the media in the UK went to private school and they teach languages from an early age, it's no real surprise. To go a private school, you have to be rich. so he didn't pull himself up by his bootstraps.
You can't help yourself, can you?
Envy kills darling 😂
Which he?
Deeper sense? Or diva sense? Ahahahaha😂🤣
I don't know if you take requests but I've always been curious about constructed languages, some took inspiration from other languages like how elvish sounds like finnish and na'vi sounds like mauri or other Polynesian languages.
OH! Can you make how hard is greek (mondern greek) and do u have greek stories?
not first
So you're saying people who learn many languages are on the path of being a villain ? 😂😂😁😁
The flaw of the theory would be Putin and Trump.
most people speak 3 languages after middle school... well, in normal countries anyways...
Consider yourself lucky. In fact most people don't speak more than 1. If You grew up in a country like Yours(by Your nick i'm assuming, it's Netherlands) bi or tri linguality is nothing that would rise an eyebrow, because there is a lot of tourism, immigration and couple binding between neighbouring countries. I grew up in an isolated shithole, and trust me it takes an effort and a lot of determination to learn a foreign language if You don't have resources, tutor or a native to speak to in Your target language to correct Your errors, so Yes, even bilingual is an achievement on its own.
As a native Russian speaker I must say that I need subtitles to understand Mickey Rourke Джаст сэинг
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