Actress | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Iman was born on July 25, 1955 in Mogadishu, Somalia as Iman Abdulmajid. Weissmuller was born in Austria-Hungary, in what is today Romania, but he claimed he was born in Pennsylvania. German is the second most widely used scientific language and Germany has a long history of invention and a strong presence in engineering, environmental science, and medical fields. You can see her in: Gravity, Miss Congeniality and Crash. Here are the 10 most multilingual film stars. She is a producer and actress, known for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), L.A. Story (1991) and No Way Out (1987). Her mother, Helga Meyer, was a German opera singer. After growing up in Chicago in German-speaking communities, Weissmuller went on to play Tarzan in 12 movies from 1932 to 1948. She grew up speaking German, she learned English while living in London, and then she moved to Paris when she was 15 to model, where she learned French. From classics to electronica, pop to German songs that have hidden grammar lessons, Germany’s music scene has it all.. A jingle in your ear will serve you well when you’re dying to absorb authentic German culture and truly enjoy the way you learn. Some have even gone so far as to dub their own roles into other languages. With many words for the English word “the”, including the gendered articles of “ der, die, and das ”, many struggle to learn the language due to its complexity. 7 Hollywood stars who surprised us all by speaking Russian ... She speaks not only French and Russian, but also German. After she was born in Arlington, Virgina, the family lived moved back to Germany and lived there for 12 years. The German language has quite the stigma of being difficult to learn. The US Olympic swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) is also part of the German-Hollywood connection. Know of any polyglot celebrities? Speaking German is beneficial for scientists and inventors. #19 Charlize Theron The Top 40 charts are bumping with German learning opportunities. Some have even gone so far as to dub their own roles into other languages. Sandra Bullock – German. Here are the 10 most multilingual film stars. She grew up speaking Hebrew and English, but also knows conversational French, Japanese, German, and Spanish. Until the age of 18, Sandra held American/German dual citizenship and reapplied for German citizenship in 2009. Nevertheless, there have been many Hollywood Celebrities who’ve managed to master it – and even speak it on stage and during interviews. Thus, Sandra spent most of her childhood speaking German in Nuremberg, Bavaria. She has even performed in a German opera. So she is officially German, too! She was previously married to … During Sandra’s youth, she accompanied her mother on several European concert tours and would always speak with her mother and other German family members in German. The star of Miss Congeniality, Speed, Gravity, and most recently, Minions, Sandra Bullock was born to a German mother and is fluent in the German language. Zoe Saldana – Spanish . 23 Shakira