Ingrid Bergman speaking 5 languages

Ingrid Bergman, a Swedish Hollywood Actress (1915-1982). She could speak 5 languages in total: English, French, Swedish, Italian and German.

[flenif]

The old actresses were such great beauties. They aged beautifully !!

[krishnamohanrai]

There is sweetness in her voice and natural attractiveness in all languages. She is alive with her work and always appears, it was yesterday that she did her performance. Great actress,

[GoldLeafPress]

I think the reason why I enjoy her a bit more than any other actress was because she didn’t fix her face or body to fit “Hollywood” society. She didn’t let fame get in her head with her fashion. She looks like a regular off the street. And being regular is more appealing to me than someone who is trying to fake their way with glam and plastic to get ahead of everyone. She also wasn’t as innocent as people wanted her to he which made her more human. Yea she jumped from one partner to another having different children but to me she’s just like a normal person and Hollywood tried to put a pedestal for good girls who behaved and didn’t like the fact she jumped from marriage to marriage and had children out of wedlock. I hated how Hollywood canceled her because of her human-ness. Like guys can do exactly what she did but when she does it…op…sound the alarms, a woman is acting crazy and out of line!

[annainspain]

As we used to say in my translation classes, the first 14 languages are hard to learn. After that it gets easier.

[JFBridge]

She was actually half-German (on her mother's side).

[Celisar]

Well, Swedish and German were her mother tongue, so it’s 3 foreign languages but those remarkably fluently!
Her English was btw excellent and I don’t hear any “thick” accent- she sounds very British with a delightful hint of Swedish.

[klaus_vans]

She has been one of the most beautiful, talented and fascinating women to have ever walked on the earth! ❤

[gwynnielsen]

Europeans during this time period did know more than two languages. My grandmother from Eastern Europe spoke seven.

[andersliljevall]

Unlike garbo Bergman got a good education she was upper bourgeoisie from the right side of Stockholm and a couple of European languages was a must, not unusual at all

[deserttrainguy]

While she was speaking, I understood three words of French, two words of Swedish, 50% of the Italian, and 3 words of German. If I wasn't lazy, I would learn another language.

[Anna-rkhn]

What a beautiful remarkable women ….. I love her roles and movies

[emmanuellearrivets]

Ingrid Bergman was so clever and brilliant. She spoke several languages.

[mysticalcatnip]

I love her and Audrey Hepburn polyglots

[dr.soheilamostafavi]

She was lovely in all, french, german, Swedish, n the rest ...

[phillippvongrahl]

In all languages ​​she appears as a natural, honest and authentic conversation partner. She spoke openly about her life. She doesn't pretend. This sets her apart from many other big international stars from that time.

[rosine]

I am hearing a distinct Swedish accent when she speaks German and Italian, and her French has Swedish R:s. She grew up in Stockholm with her Swedish father and her mother died when she was 3, so I dont know if she considered herself German aswell.

[FrankGebauer-vi]

Bewundernswert, herrlich wenn man sich mit anderen in deren Sprache unterhalten kann.

[hebneh]

I've read that when she first came to Hollywood in 1939 she couldn't speak English at all, and had to memorize her lines just by sound. If that's true, she got to be comfortable in English very rapidly because in her early 1940s American films she speaks with complete ease and apparent fluency.

[silentsmurf]

I never realized how much Isabella Rossellini looked and sounded like her mother until watching that first clip!

[brittakriep]

No surprise. Bergman would be in german Bergmann, which means miner. English and german are westgermannic languages, swedish is northgermannic, but influenced by german. French and italian are romanic languages, also related.