Shakira speaks how many languages

People knew it then that she would go places. Her first two albums were surely not that successful but she made a comeback with Waka Waka which took her fame to a whole new level. She was widely known amongst the football fans and also people who knew nothing about the sport.

Did you know that Shakira can speak multiple languages fluently? It is believed that she is fluent in around five languages including Portuguese, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic. She was exposed to a rich culture and people of different ethnicities which grew her interest in learning multiple languages. Because of her versatile talent, she has become one of the most selling artists in Colombia and there is no doubt in the fact that she is recognized globally as a hit artist.

Only after she got so successful did she decide to grow her personality which led to her learning multiple languages. She was born and raised in Spain but went to a French high school, where she became fluent in French. While Jodie Foster learned French at a very young age, Cruz learned Italian and English later in life in order to play certain roles and further her acting career, even winning awards for films in which she played an Italian-speaking character.

She also has a paternal half-sister, Salma. For over a decade, Spanish actress Penelope Cruz has been publically yet quietly married to her husband, Javier Bardem. He, like her, is a Spanish actor. See Natalie Portman speak Hebrew here. Mortensen frequently returns to Argentina, and even filmed the drama " Todos tenemos un plan " there.

He also knows some French and Italian. When Kruger was a teenager, her mother sent her to London to learn English via student exchange programs. And at the age of 15, Kruger moved to Paris to pursue a modeling career , subsequently picking up the French language.

Kruger's languages came in handy on the set of " Inglorious Basterds ," where she used her knowledge of German, French, and English. Listen to Diane Kruger speak German and French. Leo often visited his maternal grandmother in Germany, where he was able to learn and practice his German. Listen to DiCaprio speak German. Gwyneth Paltrow traveled to Spain as a teenager , and fell so in love with the language and culture, that she makes a point to visit once a year.

Paltrow has said that she speaks to her daughter and son in Spanish, too. In , the actress turned businesswoman launched a Spanish-language version of her lifestyle style blog, GOOP. See Paltrow speak Spanish. She frequently traveled to and worked in France when she was a teenager, and spoke her own lines in films " Moi, fleur bleue " and " A Very Long Engagement.

When Ben Affleck was 13, he and his brother Casey spent a year living in Mexico. Affleck has used his language for various movies, including his movie " Argo ," where he plays an Argentine character, and " Runner Runner ," which was filmed in Puerto Rico. See Ben Affleck speak Spanish. See her speak French. The "Gravity" actress was born in Virginia, but spent much of her childhood accompanying her mother , a German opera singer, on European concert tours. She learned the language from her mother, German family members, and through her involvement in an opera's children's choir in Germany.

Watch Bullock speak German. Theron has admitted to being self-conscious about her English , detailing her language struggle in America on Piers Morgan's talk show. The feedback was, 'She's great but she needs to speak English,'" she said. See the actress speak Afrikaans.