Mmm...Watch Bradley Cooper Speak French
And nine other surprisingly multilingual celebs
First, we tipped you off to some extremely accomplished leading ladies. Now, watch ten stars show off some serious linguistic skills and prepare to feel slightly bad about skipping senior-year Spanish.
Bradley Cooper
Speaks: English and French
Watch now; thank us later.
Shakira
Speaks: Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and Italian
Her hips don’t lie, but her mouth can--in five languages.
Sandra Bullock
Speaks: English and German
Bullock spent 12 years as a child in Nuremberg with her American father and German mother, an opera singer.
Colin Firth
Speaks: English and Italian
Firth’s wife, Livia, is an Italian fashion designer, and while he says his grasp on the language isn’t sufficient enough to act in an Italian film, we beg to differ. Mr. Darcy per sempre.
Mila Kunis
Speaks: Russian and English
Born in Ukraine, Kunis hilariously defended Justin Timberlake against a Russian journalist at a press conference in 2011.
Penelope Cruz
Speaks: Spanish, French, Italian and English
Cruz was the first Spanish actress to win an Academy Award, but her skills go beyond just those two languages. She also translated her Italian lines in Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love and says Allen still doesn’t know what she was saying.
Kobe Bryant
Speaks: English and Italian
Fun fact: Bryant's father played professional basketball, too--except in Italy, where Kobe spent time as a child.
Natalie Portman
Speaks: English, Hebrew, Spanish, German, French and Japanese
Overachiever...
Diane Kruger
Speaks: German, English and French
Kruger is actually native to Germany, where she studied English as a child. French came a bit later, during her modeling days in Paris. Of course.
Edward Norton
Speaks: English and Japanese
After studying Japanese at Yale, Norton worked in Osaka for a company that created affordable housing for low-income families. Swoon.