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Ben Affleck Goes VIRAL for His Spanish-Speaking Skills!
Did you cognize Ben Affleck is bilingual?
While speaking astir his caller movie Air, the Oscar victor showcased his conversationally fluent Spanish successful an interrogation with Spain-based vigor web La Cadena SER, which was posted connected the outlet's TikTok account connected April 3. The video has gone viral and has spurred jokes from fans, including 1 who commented, "This is our caller Benito, huh?"
The Justice League actor has showcased his Spanish skills before, chatting successful the connection with paparazzi connected the thoroughfare and journalists connected TV.
So how does Ben cognize however to talk Spanish truthful well? In 2020, he said connected The Kelly Clarkson Show that helium speaks Spanish "passively" and learned the connection arsenic a teen histrion moving connected determination successful Mexico successful the '80s.
He appeared to beryllium referencing his acquisition filming the PBS acquisition series The Second Voyage of the Mimi, which focused connected a fictional unit of a sailboat who explored Mayan ruins successful confederate Mexico. It served arsenic a sequel to The Voyage of the Mimi show, which marked the actor's TV debut.
"I did a small kids TV bid erstwhile I was young, and erstwhile I was 13, that season, that twelvemonth was successful Mexico," Ben told Kelly Clarkson. "And truthful I was successful Mexico for a year, and that's however I picked it up."
The histrion noted however helium helped his and ex-wife Jennifer Garner's eldest daughter Violet Affleck—14 astatine the clip and present 17—improve her ain Spanish skills for school.
"She's gotten to the people wherever she's similar successful the harder Spanish classes and she's getting amended and she's similar close astatine the constituent wherever I deliberation she mightiness beryllium passing me," joked Ben, who has since joined Jennifer Lopez. "And that was erstwhile I was like, 'Nope, this is not happening. I don't caput that I can't bash your mathematics homework and you're 14 years old, but you are not gonna beryllium amended astatine Spanish than me.' And so, I've decided now, I've gotta like, instrumentality classes, I've gotta bash thing to support up."
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Ben noted however he's tally into criticism of his Spanish skills from fluent Spanish speakers. "The occupation with Spanish is that you larn a clump of words, similar I larn each these words, successful Mexico, immoderate good, immoderate ya know. And past you spell determination else, similar you spell to Spain oregon you spell to South America and they're like, 'No, that's not Spanish.'"
He added, "And past they're like, you person a Mexican accent."
Ben is not the only celeb who has amazed fans with his multilingual skills. Check retired other stars you whitethorn not person known talk different connection fluently:
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Sandra Bullock
The Oscar victor speaks German fluently. Her precocious mom, opera singer Helga Mathilde Meyer, was calved successful Germany and Sandra lived determination arsenic a child and grew up speaking German.
Sandra has showcased her overseas connection skills onstage, including astatine the 2012 Oscars, wherever she presented the Best Foreign Language Film grant successful German.
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Bradley Cooper
The Pennsylvania autochthonal speaks fluent French, arsenic seen successful press interviews. "When I was a kid, I retrieve watching Chariots of Fire," helium told People in 2011. "And French is the authoritative connection of the Olympics. So there's a country wherever a feline was speaking French and I thought, 'Man, that sounds truthful cool. I privation to larn French.'"
According to the magazine, Bradley later lived successful France for six months arsenic portion of an speech program.
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Natalie Portman
The Israeli-American Black Swan actress, calved successful Jerusalem arsenic Natalie Hershlag to Israeli parents, speaks fluent Hebrew and has showcased her overseas connection skills successful Israeli property interviews arsenic good arsenic on Inside the Actor's Studio in 2014 and successful a 2017 Vanity Fair video.
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Ben Affleck
The U.S.-born and raised Oscar victor learned to talk Spanish fluently arsenic a teenager while filming a show. "I did a small kids TV bid erstwhile I was young, and erstwhile I was 13, that season, that twelvemonth was successful Mexico," the histrion said connected The Kelly Clarkson Show. "And truthful I was successful Mexico for a year, and that's however I picked it up."
Ben occasionally speaks Spanish successful interviews with Spanish-language media outlets.
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Mila Kunis
Like galore radical who grew up in the Soviet Union earlier it collapsed, the Ukrainian-born actress can recognize and talk Russian. In 2011, she communicated successful the connection astatine a sheet lawsuit for the movie Friends With Benefits successful Moscow to shut down a reporter who asked her co-star Justin Timberlake why helium pursued a movie career.
"If helium wants to marque movies and helium can, wherefore shouldn't he?" Mila said successful Russian. "What benignant of question is that? Why are you here?"
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Lupita Nyong'o
The Oscar victor was calved successful Mexico to Kenyan parents and grew up successful Nairobi. She speaks fluent English, Spanish, Luo and Swahili.
"I was calved successful Mexico due to the fact that my begetter was teaching astatine a schoolhouse successful Mexico City," she told CNN successful 2014. "I was calved during the 3rd twelvemonth helium was there. And erstwhile I was 16, I returned to Mexico to larn Spanish. I lived successful Taxco, Guerrero and attended the UNAM, the Education Center for Foreigners. [I] lived determination for 7 months and I loved it."
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Sebastian Stan
The Winter Soldier is primitively from Romania. At property 8, helium moved to Austria with his mom, a pianist. He and his family relocated to the United States erstwhile helium was a pre-teen. The histrion has occasionally given interviews to Romanian media outlets successful their autochthonal language.
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Zoe Saldaña
The New Jersey-born histrion lived successful the Dominican Republic betwixt ages 10 and 17 and speaks fluent Spanish. "Spanish was my archetypal language," she told Cosmopolitan in 2014. "Then you spell to school, and wrong a period you're wholly an English baby. So that's the conflict you're ever having: It's English retired determination and Spanish successful the house. I don't accidental 'Mommy,' I accidental 'Mami.'"
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Timothée Chalamet
The actor, the lad of French-American writer Marc Chalamet, speaks fluent French, arsenic seen in TV interviews. "I grew up speaking some French and English," he told U.K. magazine RSNG, "since my begetter comes from France."
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Tom Hiddleston
Aside from his autochthonal English, the British Loki prima tin talk Spanish, French and Greek.
"It's thing that's ever fascinated maine since I was astatine school," Tom said connected the SiriusXM vigor amusement In-Depth with Larry Flick in 2019. "It's truly curious, erstwhile you're a child, you don't cognize wherefore you're bully astatine things, and I wasn't particularly, successful fact, astatine each talented astatine mathematics oregon the sciences. But arsenic soon arsenic we started learning languages, I found I had an affinity for it."
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