Das sage ich auch ab und zu, weil es mich einfach vom Druck befreit. Saying I do speak German and proceeding to make mistakes is embarrassing to most non native speakers. i bet it's also the same for Germans who aren't confident of their English or of their English accent let's say.
He speaks it with excellent tone, but there are pauses when he seeks the word. Some people's language skills are like that: excellent speakers with limited vocabulary.
@nullptr_t It's wrong. 1977 is the true year of the last one, actually. Search the name Hamida Djandoubi, the last prisoner to be sentenced to death and guillotined in France.
@@roipapypremierdunom4078 Dude the last public guillotining was in 1939 . In 1977 it was the last sentenced to death in France it's not the same thing
Well... he Use to be a commando of some sorts in ww2... Stabbed a couple of people... Had to get close for that... I assume you had to be good with the language the satbbed people spole too XD
I have. As a truck driver I was often in Britain before Brexit. At the customs in Dover there are several English speaking most perfect German, no accent at all. Every time I was there speaking to one of them I couldn't get rid of a sensational amazement feeling. How did they learn, i asked. With a smile they all said military.
It's quite likely that being able to speak perfect German was essential to staying alive at one point for him, seeing as he was in Special Operations during WWII. On the set of LOTR, Christopher Lee told Peter Jackson he had personal experience in knowing what someone stabbed in the back would sound like. @@dotconfig
That's that inner humble gentleman, he probably actually felt like his German was lacking to his standards, but they are so high that to us it sounds great.
As some others have stated, he was fluent in all these languages, he has to be, since he served as both an intelligence officer to the Royal Air Force during WW2 and as an agent in the “central registry for war criminals”, essentially a post war Nazi hunter, he then went on to become an actor, this man was a true legend, he will be missed, may he rest in peace
les R surtout sont les plus difficiles à prononcer pour un anglo-saxon, et M. Lee s'en sort merveilleusement bien. Il était juste phénoménal cet acteur.
He says he never studied or learned German, he just sang in German and played roles in German and continues to speak better German than many people who lived in Germany for decades. This man really was a legend!
As a Spanish I must say that he spanish pronunciation and accent are really impressive, not bad at all for a british nazi-hunter, swordman, wizard, master sith, count, dentist, metalhead, dracula, actor, singer, composer, charlemagne descendent, knight of Queen Isabel II, agent from Royal Air force and intelligence secret service.
"as a spanish" is not normal English, you have to add a noun such as speaker, national, person etc. while he is very impressive, he does have British vowels in all his languages - I get that people like the sonority of that, but it is far from perfect
As an Italian I find his accent so fashinating. You need time to tell he's not a native speaker , because of a slight inflection in the pronunciation, but his control of the language rhythm is perfect.
Y se esforzaba por pronunciar muy bien todos esos idiomas. Qué gran cultura la que tenía. Hablar en todos esos idiomas, va más allá de sólo pronunciarlos y listo, para comunicarte, debes pensar como piensan los naturales de ese idioma, entonces este hombre, había interactuado toda su vida de esa manera con mucha gente. Conocer personas, hablar idiomas, te culturiza, te educa, te hace aprender sobre la vida, sociedad, costumbres, etc.
C' est très possible de faire tout ca. Il faut rester 1 certain temps ds 1 nation & c' est faisable. Pas 10 ans non plus. Il avait ce que j' appelle " le syndrome arménien".
Don't forget that he is actually the guy who inspired the character of James Bond. (The writer of the 007 books was actually a cousin of Christopher Lee)
It's one thing to learn a language, it's another thing to be fluent in it down to the language tics, regional flavors, personal intonations, and even be able to play with the language's own rules and melody. I can't tell for the other languages, but his French is astonishing.
Sir Christopher Lee did everything, from WWII veteran, theater, movies and even sang in a heavy metal band (Rhapsody of Fire). RIP Sir Christopher Lee.
@@inquisitorwalmarius6650 in Italian he tells about his ring, that belonged to his great-grandfather, Girolamo Carandini, who was Italian. He also explains that he got his middle name "Frank" because of Girolamo's son, Francesco. P.S. Although he speaks unusually slow, his accent is so clean that one may think he's Italian
Christopher Lee was literally him. He was a badass secret agent, Nazi hunter, royal Air Force, a literal Knight, an actor, musician, could speak multiple languages. Dude had so much class.
His German pronunciation was very good, as far as I can tell that also goes for the other languages. It’s very impressive to not only be able to be fluent in 5 languages but also nail the pronunciation. What a legend.
Sempre fui fã de seu trabalho, pela sua bela voz e sua presença marcante. Grande ator que esteve além e acima do papel que o marcou, como Drácula. Agora mais ainda, pela sua cultura como poliglota. O italiano o espanhol e o francês eu entendo e ele fala perfeitamente. O alemão os comentários daqui o aprovam. Um belo homem e um grande caráter. Descanse em paz
I met Sir Christopher Lee on the concourse of London Waterloo station back in 1987. I was a train guard for BR/NSE at the time and he approached me and asked if I knew which platform the next train for Shepperton would be going from. He’d just missed one so I explained and said we’d have to keep an eye on the departure board. Only 30 seconds before he came to me I’d been listening to my Sony Walkman. After explaining about the Shepperton services, he said: “I notice you were listening to music on that gadget, there. Anything good?” I told him I had been listening to Iron Maiden “Live After Death”, to which he replied: “A very fine recording and one of Iron Maiden’s best I must say.” I stood there aghast, truly. Cutting the story short he told me that he’d had a soft spot for heavy rock and metal for years and that he’d love to make his own heavy metal record one day. And do you know what, he did; a couple in fact. All about Charlemagne. Bloody good as well. We talked about music in general for a while and I discovered he loved classical and opera. He also commented on my Yorkshire accent and asked why was I down in London. I told him I’d always wanted to work on the railway and at the time the majority of jobs were in the south. “You moved down here with family?” ‘No on my own’, I explained. “Any friends?” ‘Not before I moved down here, no.’ He said I was very brave and that you should always follow your dreams. Meeting Sir Christopher Lee remains one of my most favourite happenings in my life and I shall cherish that memory until I pop my mortal coil. He was an impressive, warm, kind, humble and funny man. They’ll never be anyone like him again. May he rest in peace.
His Spanish remarkably good. The fact is that he speaks with Castillian accent, which is EXTREMLY difficult for foreigners, and yet he speaks it like a Quijote.
My dad came from a poor area of Kabul, Afghanistan. He didn't let poverty stop him from getting a PhD. He also learned 6 languages fluently which included Farsi, Pashto, Russian, Turkish, German and English. He could communicate fully in all 6 languages. It goes to show you that if you put your mind and soul into something, you can accomplish so much.
@@davidsf101im just wondering did he go into diplomacy or history? Thats usually where you often see ppl learning so many languages outside of of course genuine just passion for languages, or people, or travel. Also Central Asia itself just had so many languages and sub-dialects. What people see as an impressive amount of languages in Europe is the sort of standard for getting around in other regions of the world,
Se echará de menos su imagen de malo malísimo en todos los papeles que interpretaba con esa pronunciación única en un inglés inmaculado. Un actor que fue algo más que un actor, una persona entrañable y tremendamente carismática, con una vida digna de un superhéroe. Creo que todos lo recordaremos siempre con cariño. Christopher, genio y figura.
C'est incroyable comment son francais est bon, la majorité des anglos ont un français pourris, si j'aurais juste entendu sa voix, j'aurais pas deviné que c'étais lui
Glorious man. His pronunciation in French was absolutely seemless and in Spanish, while more accented, the C's which roll normally hard for any English native were as soft as any castillian. My deepest and most sincere respect, Sir Christopher Lee. Rest in peace.
that is one of the thing that impressed me the most, since usually foreigners struggle with that one... that shows how remarkable and caring for even the smallest details he was
Same in German. His pronunciation was perfect, without any accent. He pronounced the difference between s and ß perfectly, which even most Germans do not. I am truly impressed.
Il suo italiano è incredibilmente grandioso. in Italian he said that the ring on his finger belonged to his great-grandfather and that he took the name of Frank from his grandfather Francesco 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
He has an ear for language and a tongue for it; meaning, he hears and speaks with a good accent, almost native. That's a very difficult thing to do for most non-native speakers. To be able to get the accent right, and to be able to think in the language rather than to translate back and forth with your native language, both are difficult skills. It looked to me like he was trying hard to think how to say what he wanted to say in German and Italian, and he seemed a bit more comfortable in French. His Spanish was pretty good, although he was overdoing the R and RR. I don't speak German or Italian well, and my Spanish and French are rusty and not as fluent as I would want. I'm American. His fluency is really very good, I'm impressed. I wonder if he was a good singer too.
Translating is not learning a language, learning a language is like absorbing it and being able to think in it, that is to say if you are someone with an internal monologue which half of the population doesn't have. Modern language learning techniques are quite different from what the school systems teach the people, you're not supposed to learn how grammar works and lots of vocabulary and then piece those two together to form sentences, that's not how you do it with your native language for example, you just think and say and write. To achieve this with a new language you must first understand it, and to understand it you must first not understand it but just know what it might refer to, and you keep doing it and slowly you start to naturally learn words. And what does that refer to? Consuming media. Especially media where you're talked to, like youtube videos. Why and how does this work? Well to put it simply it's analogous to the way babies learn to speak. But as you're an adult you already have a language model in your head and don't need to learn any new concepts related to the world, and on top of that, despite not being recommended as the way to learn a language, learning about grammar, vocab and about pronunciation and the phonetic system of your target language will increase your speed of learning that language, your absorption rate per se, but it shouldn't take more than 5 to 10 percent of your time. Now as a disclaimer it takes thousands of listening hours to learn a language, so like you'll spend 100 hours tops learning vocab and grammar on the side, mostly in the beginning, but yes, thousands of hours. Because how many hours did you spend as a baby and toddler learning your native tongue? Well yeah, all your waking moments, so you have to imagine how many hours will add up if you listen 8 to 16 hours a day to a different language, why do you think in another comment someone was talking about how some people learned german in the military to perfection, if you're suddenly in a different country surrounded 24/7 by a new language, in a few months you'll learn it no problem. I personally have spent more than 25k hours 'immersing' as some will say, in English, which is a funny way to say instead of consuming media in my native language in the past 13 years I've instead consumed media in English, predominantly youtube. To put that into more digestible numbers, I've spend around 5 hours a day in those 13 years consuming some sort of English content. So like, if you have asd like me and can hyperfocus and have special interest than this is going to be easy, otherwise Idk.
In my opinion, one of the last great iterations of the quintessential Renaissance Man. Well rounded in all ways. An actor, musician, experienced combat veteran, polyglot; you name it. An absolute legend.
@@Ihavehadmanynames7779 Where or when did it all go wrong? Why couldn't we catch the signs? We must've realize we were drifting to a point of being rudderless! I say we, because we all knew the signs, but we kept going deeper to a point of no return. No matter what philosophical bent you bare, a little piece of us all died on the road to purgatory. I just was wondering....was it the JFK assassination or Martin Luther King, Vietnam, 9-11? Maybe by 9-11, there was nothing worth fighting for?
As a native Spanish speaker I would love to hear him narrating the LOTR saga in this language, great pronunciation and love your accent Sir. Lee. R.I.P. gone but never forgotten.
One of the most amazing men of his generation who possessed a life well lived! It’s amazing to watch his acting, never a confused moment, always focused like a razor!
I was born in Italy, and he's Italian is even purer than mine, I studied Spanish for ten years and he's pronunciation is still better than mine, what a legend
@@Boredoutofmywits Yeah and? His* Spanish pronunciation was very good, which was the point of my comment. You won't see many native English speakers going all in with that accent. The sound of the C/Z, the hard R and the strong vowels are pretty difficult for them and the Castilian accent is the one that emphasizes them the most.
This man was a special operations officer in WWII and hunted nazis at the end of the war. In his unit, knowing so many languages probably wasn't just for fun, but mandatory for infiltration and espionage. The man told Peter Jackson how men sound when they're stabbed in the lung. A truer badass may never be seen again. Rest easy, warrior, poet, scholar and knight. Your legacy will live on forever
He also witnessed the last guillotine decapitation in France and even met Tolkien when he was still alive - decades before PJ even had the idea of turning Tolkien's tales into a movie trilogy
his french is almost fluent and his accent is flawless like he was born in a french speaking country. Incredible for an englishman who is not a native nor a scholar.
He said, his German ''isn't so good'' but he actually did the german dubbing for the evil king in ''The Last Unicorn'' in addition to the english one and his voice-acting was so good, that most people thought it was a german voice-actor and he sounds really good in this video here. In addition to these languages here, he also knew to a lesser degree, ancient Greek, Latin, Russian and Swedish.
Latin does not surprise me actually, a good chunk of the languages he knows are actually Romance languages, French, Spanish, and Italian. English also has a bunch of words derived from Latin, but idk how much that counts because he was a native English speaker
@@jtraptor7776 I sold everything I owned and went to Brasil for a year back in 2013. I was with a Brasilian woman for 9 years prior to this, but I didn't learn any BP (Brasilian Portuguese) as she spoke fluent English, but I heard a lot of it. 4 months in Brasil and I was speaking as a native and getting compliments on my pronunciation and proficiency. When I eventually and regretfully returned to Canada, Home of the Cucked, I realized I could read the French on the back of packaging.
It amazes me that we grew up with so many talented artists, but sometimes we don't appreciate it enough because we were young and only realize when they're gone. Rest in peace
As a native Spanish speaker, being totally honest, his Spanish level was REALLY good, I'd say still "far" to a native level, but still PRETTY good, more given he was English/British, which makes him start from a "harder" starter position to learn Spanish. Amazing, a true devoted learner.
Ein fantastisches fast dialektloses Deutsch !!! Meinen Respekt an diesen wundervollen Menschen und Film Darstellers des 20. Jahrhunderts ! Er bleibt bei uns allen als " Graf Dracula" und in anderen Rollen unvergesslich denke ich !!! Einfach gesagt ein großartiger Mensch 👌👌👌👌
“It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the force, but by our skills with a lightsaber.” My favorite quote from Count Dooku. Rest In Peace Christopher Lee.
It was nice to see him dust off his swashbuckling skills for the Star Wars franchise. He played pirates now and again in his early film career, and I was glad to see he still had the chops, so to speak.
Poliglota, espía, actor, cantante, descendiente de la nobleza, solado de excelencia, único miembro del cast de TLotR en haber conocido a Tolkein, de los pocos que vivieron para contar que presenció la última ejecución pública con guillotina en Francia... ¡Este hombre no es un hombre! ¡ES UNA PUTA LEYENDA!
@@chucknorris9667 I feel like I'm missing something. Unless like, we're talking about a cult against candy lol. But I assume we're talking about real life Christopher Lee, not his characters, so I'm still missing the context.
I speak quite a few languages to some extent and I can understand what he is saying in all these, but his pronunciation and ability is amazing. Doing interviews, where you cannot prepare in detail beforehand. Wow. This has increased my already very high esteem of this man.
He was not only a fantastic actor, but he was also articulate and proficient in all of these languages. I'm Italian and his pronounciation is near flawless. I feel inspired to challenge myself and learn more languages after watching this.
He actually had Italian blood too; he was descendant of noble Italian through his maternal great-grandfather who was, in fact, an Italian political refugee, Jerome Carandini, the Marquis of Sarzano, whose wife, Lee's great-grandmother, was English-born opera singer Marie Carandini...
@@mikhailabunidal9146 Thank you very much but I'm well aware of is Italian blood. I've always known it. I was just pointing out how good his Italian was.
He was SUCH A LEGEND! A real life James Bond, veteran of two armies (he volunteered for Finnish army during the Winter War), an extraordinary actor, the lead singer for a heavy metal band, author of several books, and a good husband and father.
What a legend! Born of half Italian nobility, Carandini, Marquis of Sarzano, on his mother's side, spoke the language beautifully Actors like him are a dying breed
As an Italian I'm particularly surprised with his performances in Spanish and Italian! He was great with accents and pronunciation of course, but his phasing, the pauses and even used the figures of speech correctly. We will miss him forever.
Il secondo cognome di Christopher Lee era Carandini, da parte materna: Estelle Marie Carandini (1889-1981), nipote di Girolamo Carandini, marchese di Sarzano (1803-1870). Il 21 giugno 2004 gli è stata conferita la cittadinanza onoraria nella città di Casina, in provincia di Reggio Emilia, dove vissero i suoi antenati.
True, both his pronounciation and his inflection are perfect and the phrasing - though relatively simple - is effective and formally correct... he may very well be mistaken for a native speaker
Pero leer no es hablar,algo de conocimiento tiene por la manera de pronunciar las vocales y tal, pero hablar lo que es hablar, obviamente no sabe español
@@Kev_pencils Aún así sólo fueron 10 palabras que podía perfectamente haber memorizado o leído en una chuleta al lado de la cámara, como buen profesional que era y por el respeto que le tenía al público. No le estoy quitando mérito ya que, además de la cortesía, hizo el esfuerzo de intentar pronunciar correctamente, cosa que el 99% de los artistas de habla inglesa no hacen nunca. Pero de ahí a hablar el idioma hay un buen trecho. Yo, que tengo una edad como para acordarme de sus apariciones en televisión como invitado, puedo asegurar que todas sus entrevistas las hizo siempre en inglés con pinganillo de traducción simultánea. Jamás en castellano.
@@lacasadelavida292 Pensé que estaba leyendo en esa parte, quizás se le intentó dar un aire anticuado al texto por ser referente a El Quijote. De todos modos, se entiende todo muy bien, un capo
@@lacasadelavida292 Auténtico? eso no existe, cualquiera que haya estudiado lingüistica básica (diferencia entre lengua y habla) lo sabe. Yo hablo la variante más inauténtica (seguramente piensas eso), la de Chile.
His spanish is quite good,he kinda struggled with the "r" pronunciation but just few times some other times he pronounces them really smoothly and he nails the spanish (from spain) accent quite good ,he sounds really classy and with his deep voice it makes him sound like a really wise old professor giving a speech.
@@Ezequiel-lh4ub Yeah although some people from my school had the same problem cuz we grew up learning french so yeah. I think I’ve gotten better at it though, but had to do it on my own.
I have the feeling that he doesn't just speak these languages because he's memorized them, he knows what he's saying and understands it. This is a sign of high intelligence
I think OP is saying that he understands how to use the languages to communicate. It's one thing to pick up phrases in Duolingo. It's another to understand them in a native speaker's particular accent, and another to express yourself articulate!y. For example, the way he repeats words for emphasis and changes pitch to communicate nuance.
I feel like German pronunciation is easier for native English speakers, as they're closely related. Similar to how Romance language speakers will sound more proficient when speaking French, Italian, Spanish etc
He even does the French and German accents well, he doesn't just sound like an Englishman speaking them in their own accent. I guess that's somewhat due to his role in some very clandestine part of World War II.
As a German - his German does have a slight accent but if I only heard him without knowing who he is or where he's from, I definitely wouldn't place him as Englishman. Maybe Southern Europe?
His Italian was incredibly impressive, the pronunciation of some words is very tricky for people speaking English as first language and he just does it greatly with no struggle
@@t3rmipvp if your mother is a native speaker of a language that definetely helps you with that language, probably he learned italian when he was a child
He was an amazing man.I knew he was multilingual but hadn't heard him speaking other languages until now.Increases my respect and admiration,which were already high.I loved his curiosity and openness to new things.Heavy metal! And he not only had fun with it,he respected the musicians who performed with him.I was very sad to learn of his passing.
“My German is not that good”
*Continues to speak fluent German.*
Legend
Truly
Das sage ich auch ab und zu, weil es mich einfach vom Druck befreit. Saying I do speak German and proceeding to make mistakes is embarrassing to most non native speakers. i bet it's also the same for Germans who aren't confident of their English or of their English accent let's say.
@@mouath_14 just say you speak german
Im a native german speaker and I sometimes make faults too it just happens no one is without mistake
Also with almost no accent whatsoever.
He speaks it with excellent tone, but there are pauses when he seeks the word. Some people's language skills are like that: excellent speakers with limited vocabulary.
Fun fact: In addition to speaking French, Christopher Lee was also a witness to the last public guillotining in France.
Last public guillotining was in 1977, so not so long time ago. Even our grandparents and parents could have been witnesses.
@nullptr_t It's wrong. 1977 is the true year of the last one, actually. Search the name Hamida Djandoubi, the last prisoner to be sentenced to death and guillotined in France.
@@roipapypremierdunom4078 Dude the last public guillotining was in 1939 . In 1977 it was the last sentenced to death in France it's not the same thing
@@WILLIX_ Oh yes you're right, my bad.
@@WILLIX_ indeed Eugène Weidmann was the last publicly sentenced to death in 1939
As a German, I’m quite surprised how naturally German he speaks.
Christopher Lee will always be one of the most legendary actors of all time
he spoke king hagard in das letzte einhorn ;) in der deutschen version
@@chrisvongorstinger2142 ohh, how fascinating, I believe I saw that one on tv, but never fully, was a long time tho
Well... he Use to be a commando of some sorts in ww2...
Stabbed a couple of people...
Had to get close for that...
I assume you had to be good with the language the satbbed people spole too XD
sameee
then theres äkkzähntß v?v
but still one of the best... pröbäbblie ´the one ive heRD ^ ^
RIP Sir Christopher Lee (May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015), aged 93
You will be remembered as a legend.
DEP Dispache en Paz
RIF Ruhe in Frieden
Descansa en paz un grande del arte escénico RIP
Que en paz descanse, fallecio en mi cumpleaños:/
I didn't know that he's not alive 😳 oh nooooo😭😭😭
Riposa in pace
I like how his deep voice can suit any language
AYe
yooo af nice to see you here.
EXACTLY
Hiiiiii
Same here. A lot of power too :3
As a German I have to say that he speaks amazingly good German. He almost has no accent and can pronounce the R
*He spoke. Sadly Sir Christopher Lee left this realm not that long ago.
IIRC he worked as a spy for the British against the Nazis and even was involved in the assassination of Heydrich
CONDE DOKU
I would assume he acquired it in the war
Er ist leider seit 2015 tot. Sehr schade da ist ein sehr talentierter und guter Schauspieler verloren gegangen.
As an Italian I can say his accent is far way beyond being good. A real legend
cosa ha detto?
Sua madre era italiana
serio?@@RVG_
@@Soloohara Sì, infatti il suo nome completo era Christopher Frank Carandini Lee
@@RVG_Wow didnt know that, thanks
rarely in my life have I heard a non-native German speaker speak such perfectly pronounced German. what a legend.
I have. As a truck driver I was often in Britain before Brexit. At the customs in Dover there are several English speaking most perfect German, no accent at all. Every time I was there speaking to one of them I couldn't get rid of a sensational amazement feeling.
How did they learn, i asked. With a smile they all said military.
makes a lot if sense, thanks for the share. i could well imagine that sir lee also got his german training from the military@@wonderfalg
It's quite likely that being able to speak perfect German was essential to staying alive at one point for him, seeing as he was in Special Operations during WWII. On the set of LOTR, Christopher Lee told Peter Jackson he had personal experience in knowing what someone stabbed in the back would sound like. @@dotconfig
WTF ... "no, no I don't speak German, not so good, no, no" ... continues to speak German freely and understandably and surprisingly good actually! :)
Dude was a spy during ww2
Modesty in Combination with witty sarcasm ;)
His German spoken here was free of any mistake, just a slight accent.
That's that inner humble gentleman, he probably actually felt like his German was lacking to his standards, but they are so high that to us it sounds great.
@@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf He was an SAS office.
"You will never be as amazing as Christopher Lee" is not an insult. It's a statement of fact
Just by comparing me to Sir Christopher Lee I would consider that a compliment
Saying i only have a tenth of his cool would be flattery
I'm waiting for the commenter that refutes this with fact, but it won't happen in my lifetime..
True!!!
Well I know atleast two people that can speak more than 5 languages.
He also spoke russian, portuguese, swahili and three urdu-dialects. He is a legend.
Swedish and Finnish as well, I have seen interviews where he did that
Also polish, czech and slovak
Damn! Really? I'm stuck at 2.
He also spoke Japanese, Alien and 12 made up languages...and Elvish.
Goddamn!!!
As some others have stated, he was fluent in all these languages, he has to be, since he served as both an intelligence officer to the Royal Air Force during WW2 and as an agent in the “central registry for war criminals”, essentially a post war Nazi hunter, he then went on to become an actor, this man was a true legend, he will be missed, may he rest in peace
He speaks French with a surprisingly good accent. Such a talented man, may he rest in peace.
Yep, the way words are said is perfect...
And french is hard to pronounce well + very hard to learn. It's my first language and he nail it.
Véri ouel
Jsuis d'accord c étonnant
les R surtout sont les plus difficiles à prononcer pour un anglo-saxon, et M. Lee s'en sort merveilleusement bien. Il était juste phénoménal cet acteur.
He says he never studied or learned German, he just sang in German and played roles in German and continues to speak better German than many people who lived in Germany for decades. This man really was a legend!
He even got the articles right. My teacher gets them wrong. My literal teacher XDDDD
As a German - he speaks better German than many a native German speaker.
I mean he doesn't mention how he spied the Germans in WW2
@@dariowinter7243 Bro what? Its not that difficult
@@sal1170 have ta learn it by heart I guess. To be fair, she's ukrainian, has been in Germany for like fifteen years or something, though...
Of course he can speak a bunch of languages he's a wizard.
and a sith lord
and a vampire
Zlatan Ibrahimovic too
Christopher Lee, one of the few humans who have lived many lifetimes during his life. What an impressive person that he was.
As a Spanish I must say that he spanish pronunciation and accent are really impressive, not bad at all for a british nazi-hunter, swordman, wizard, master sith, count, dentist, metalhead, dracula, actor, singer, composer, charlemagne descendent, knight of Queen Isabel II, agent from Royal Air force and intelligence secret service.
Hi is the man with the golden gun 🥵🥵🥵
"as a spanish" is not normal English, you have to add a noun such as speaker, national, person etc.
while he is very impressive, he does have British vowels in all his languages - I get that people like the sonority of that, but it is far from perfect
The only thing of note was his use of "perro" en vez de "pero". Rolling the 'r' means dog.
and a would be Quixote
It's really good but you can immediately tell that he's not 100% comfortable with it as a native speaker would
As a french, his pronunciation is absolutely perfect, almost like a native speaker
Same goes for His German accent free great man
c'est vrai, il est impressionant
@@potterworld2217 on dirait carrément un français qui parle, tout simplement.
@Jim Baker Il n'est vraiment pas loin d'un 10/10.
Pas du tout
As an Italian I find his accent so fashinating. You need time to tell he's not a native speaker , because of a slight inflection in the pronunciation, but his control of the language rhythm is perfect.
Y se esforzaba por pronunciar muy bien todos esos idiomas. Qué gran cultura la que tenía. Hablar en todos esos idiomas, va más allá de sólo pronunciarlos y listo, para comunicarte, debes pensar como piensan los naturales de ese idioma, entonces este hombre, había interactuado toda su vida de esa manera con mucha gente. Conocer personas, hablar idiomas, te culturiza, te educa, te hace aprender sobre la vida, sociedad, costumbres, etc.
Idioma que hablaba idioma en el que mantenia la elegancia en su voz...... Lo extrañamos... 😢
Esa capacidad ya se trae, es mas esta en un hemisferio del cerebro es mas activo.
C' est très possible de faire tout ca. Il faut rester 1 certain temps ds 1 nation & c' est faisable. Pas 10 ans non plus. Il avait ce que j' appelle " le syndrome arménien".
We all miss him
Me too..he was legend
Si
yes me too
What he’s dead?
Same, he's dead or what?
From War Veteran, to Dracula, to Dooku, to "Lollipops" this man had quite the life.
Don't forget Saruman in The Lord of The Rings !
If life were a game, he 100%'ed it.
Not to mention he's a descendant of Charle Magne.
Don't forget that he is actually the guy who inspired the character of James Bond. (The writer of the 007 books was actually a cousin of Christopher Lee)
"Caramels. They'd get stuck in your braces, wouldn't they."
-Christopher Lee
It's one thing to learn a language, it's another thing to be fluent in it down to the language tics, regional flavors, personal intonations, and even be able to play with the language's own rules and melody. I can't tell for the other languages, but his French is astonishing.
his German is also
all i can say in german is "ich mag kartofeln"
His Spanish is superb as well
His Italian is very good. Then again, he is of Italian descent and perhaps speaks it with family members.
Not only he knows all these languages but he also nails the accents! Massive respects!
Sir Christopher Lee did everything, from WWII veteran, theater, movies and even sang in a heavy metal band (Rhapsody of Fire). RIP Sir Christopher Lee.
No shit he sang Metal!!! Damn nothing more metal than that !!
@@kharnthebetrayer1575 Here's the link for you: ua-cam.com/video/XFbPiUEA62A/v-deo.html
@@kharnthebetrayer1575 This is the full album ua-cam.com/video/0eeRBh7fiQ4/v-deo.html
Thanks man, didn't know that, now that I've heard Count Dooku singing metal there will be only a couple of things that would amaze me more than that.
What a life! worth celebrating
English: "thank you for this award"
German: "so about this movie..."
French: "There were these 5 girls I knew and they were all extremely beautiful"
spanish was a reading of don quixote if im not all wrong. i really want to know what he said in spanish and italian
@@inquisitorwalmarius6650
In spanish at the end: "Thank you very much for this honor. I hope to be with you soon."
@@inquisitorwalmarius6650 in Italian he tells about his ring, that belonged to his great-grandfather, Girolamo Carandini, who was Italian. He also explains that he got his middle name "Frank" because of Girolamo's son, Francesco.
P.S. Although he speaks unusually slow, his accent is so clean that one may think he's Italian
@@inquisitorwalmarius6650 indeed, it was from don quixote de la mancha
@@neon_o7 sono italiano ma non si capisce una mazza
I can't believe how much of himself he brings into each language, his personalities are so consistent.
Christopher Lee was literally him. He was a badass secret agent, Nazi hunter, royal Air Force, a literal Knight, an actor, musician, could speak multiple languages. Dude had so much class.
He spoke Italian so well… rip to this legend
he's a legend indeed, but that italian was far from perfect
@@mastrobottega_enf ma la pronuncia è veramente ottima se bisogna paragonarlo all’italiano di molti altri attori esteri
@@mastrobottega_enf ha una pronuncia assolutamente fantastica O_O becca tutti gli accenti
Christopher Lee Carandini era di origini italiane da parte di madre e il comune di Casina ( RE ) gli ha conferito la cittadinanza onoraria.
@@mastrobottega_enf Se fai una media del modo in cui altri attori non nativi parlano non è male.
Non è perfetto, ma è comunque un buon estratto.
His German pronunciation was very good, as far as I can tell that also goes for the other languages.
It’s very impressive to not only be able to be fluent in 5 languages but also nail the pronunciation.
What a legend.
Theres a reason for that
He spoke Haggard in the German version of Last Unicorn as well.
Wtf. He's amazing.
His spanish is so so... I'm not sure if he could speak by his own, more than at basic level.
And grammar!
Sempre fui fã de seu trabalho, pela sua bela voz e sua presença marcante. Grande ator que esteve além e acima do papel que o marcou, como Drácula. Agora mais ainda, pela sua cultura como poliglota. O italiano o espanhol e o francês eu entendo e ele fala perfeitamente. O alemão os comentários daqui o aprovam. Um belo homem e um grande caráter. Descanse em paz
Este hombre fue un genio en todos los idiomas.
Que Dios lo tenga en la gloria
I met Sir Christopher Lee on the concourse of London Waterloo station back in 1987. I was a train guard for BR/NSE at the time and he approached me and asked if I knew which platform the next train for Shepperton would be going from. He’d just missed one so I explained and said we’d have to keep an eye on the departure board. Only 30 seconds before he came to me I’d been listening to my Sony Walkman. After explaining about the Shepperton services, he said: “I notice you were listening to music on that gadget, there. Anything good?” I told him I had been listening to Iron Maiden “Live After Death”, to which he replied: “A very fine recording and one of Iron Maiden’s best I must say.” I stood there aghast, truly. Cutting the story short he told me that he’d had a soft spot for heavy rock and metal for years and that he’d love to make his own heavy metal record one day. And do you know what, he did; a couple in fact. All about Charlemagne. Bloody good as well.
We talked about music in general for a while and I discovered he loved classical and opera. He also commented on my Yorkshire accent and asked why was I down in London. I told him I’d always wanted to work on the railway and at the time the majority of jobs were in the south. “You moved down here with family?” ‘No on my own’, I explained. “Any friends?” ‘Not before I moved down here, no.’ He said I was very brave and that you should always follow your dreams.
Meeting Sir Christopher Lee remains one of my most favourite happenings in my life and I shall cherish that memory until I pop my mortal coil. He was an impressive, warm, kind, humble and funny man. They’ll never be anyone like him again. May he rest in peace.
that is an impressive story. how interesting
Lucky you
Very beautiful!
Que maravilla!!!!!
Such a Beautiful history !
His French is great ! Almost sounds like a native speaker.
Same with his german
if i remember good i read somewhere that he was from the same bloodline(don't know the english words for "arbre généalogique") of Charlemagne
I believe he lived in France for some period of time.
Almost? Why almost?
@@thetruth7604 He was a direct descendant in terms of his Bloodline.
His French is absolutely superb. Very slight accent and this deep voice ... 😍
Incroyable.. on peine à deviner qu'il soit non-francophone.
The italian camera man zoomed in on his hands to showcase the authenticity of his ability to speak Italian.
His Spanish remarkably good. The fact is that he speaks with Castillian accent, which is EXTREMLY difficult for foreigners, and yet he speaks it like a Quijote.
He said "Justicia" Better than i have ever done, and i'm latin american lol.
Exactly. His pronunciation is perfect
It is
@@pimpogluti7951 purest is a word with bad connotations, imho people in Spain butcher Spanish as much as Latin Americans.
Ehhh, his "r"s are too hard. He pronounces soft r as hard r without distinction. Still, a very valiant and worthy effort
This guy is a legend. Survived fighting in WW2, played so many iconic roles including so many villians, and was even capable of speaking 5 languages
he and Connery played in the same movie. 007 the man with the golden gun. a must watch if you are fan of just one of the 2.
@@inquisitorwalmarius6650 hell he was the cousin of Ian Fleming the writer and creator of James Bond
He was in a metal band too
@@inquisitorwalmarius6650 actually Roger Moore played Bond in the man with the golden gun not Sean Connery
@@ArkhamKnight-uj6ww really, i was positive it was connery.
My dad came from a poor area of Kabul, Afghanistan. He didn't let poverty stop him from getting a PhD. He also learned 6 languages fluently which included Farsi, Pashto, Russian, Turkish, German and English. He could communicate fully in all 6 languages. It goes to show you that if you put your mind and soul into something, you can accomplish so much.
Pero no nos importa tu padre , AXA hablamos de Lee
Wow
@@itchygonads thank you. It just shows that with hard work and sacrifice, people can do just about anything.
@chockingtowin thank you. He passed away in 2010, and I miss him all the time.
@@davidsf101im just wondering did he go into diplomacy or history? Thats usually where you often see ppl learning so many languages outside of of course genuine just passion for languages, or people, or travel. Also Central Asia itself just had so many languages and sub-dialects. What people see as an impressive amount of languages in Europe is the sort of standard for getting around in other regions of the world,
Se echará de menos su imagen de malo malísimo en todos los papeles que interpretaba con esa pronunciación única en un inglés inmaculado. Un actor que fue algo más que un actor, una persona entrañable y tremendamente carismática, con una vida digna de un superhéroe. Creo que todos lo recordaremos siempre con cariño. Christopher, genio y figura.
As a French guy, I was flabbergasted. It's like he lived here his whole life. 😳 He should be a model for every language-learner out there.
He sadly passed away a while ago
Quand z'elles avaient quatre-vingt-cinq et plus ... :)
@@UnfamiliarPlace T'as déjà entendu un british lambda parler Français? Lui il n'a aucun accent, c'est incroyable.
C'est incroyable comment son francais est bon, la majorité des anglos ont un français pourris, si j'aurais juste entendu sa voix, j'aurais pas deviné que c'étais lui
Il a un peu la voix de Chirac je trouve, c'est marrant
Glorious man. His pronunciation in French was absolutely seemless and in Spanish, while more accented, the C's which roll normally hard for any English native were as soft as any castillian. My deepest and most sincere respect, Sir Christopher Lee. Rest in peace.
that is one of the thing that impressed me the most, since usually foreigners struggle with that one... that shows how remarkable and caring for even the smallest details he was
What do you mean the C roll normally hard? He just pronounced them with a TH sound as exists in English. It’s not a foreign sound to English speakers
Same in German. His pronunciation was perfect, without any accent. He pronounced the difference between s and ß perfectly, which even most Germans do not. I am truly impressed.
Il suo italiano è incredibilmente grandioso.
in Italian he said that the ring on his finger belonged to his great-grandfather and that he took the name of Frank from his grandfather Francesco 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
He has an ear for language and a tongue for it; meaning, he hears and speaks with a good accent, almost native. That's a very difficult thing to do for most non-native speakers. To be able to get the accent right, and to be able to think in the language rather than to translate back and forth with your native language, both are difficult skills. It looked to me like he was trying hard to think how to say what he wanted to say in German and Italian, and he seemed a bit more comfortable in French. His Spanish was pretty good, although he was overdoing the R and RR. I don't speak German or Italian well, and my Spanish and French are rusty and not as fluent as I would want. I'm American. His fluency is really very good, I'm impressed. I wonder if he was a good singer too.
He was indeed
Translating is not learning a language, learning a language is like absorbing it and being able to think in it, that is to say if you are someone with an internal monologue which half of the population doesn't have. Modern language learning techniques are quite different from what the school systems teach the people, you're not supposed to learn how grammar works and lots of vocabulary and then piece those two together to form sentences, that's not how you do it with your native language for example, you just think and say and write. To achieve this with a new language you must first understand it, and to understand it you must first not understand it but just know what it might refer to, and you keep doing it and slowly you start to naturally learn words. And what does that refer to? Consuming media. Especially media where you're talked to, like youtube videos. Why and how does this work? Well to put it simply it's analogous to the way babies learn to speak. But as you're an adult you already have a language model in your head and don't need to learn any new concepts related to the world, and on top of that, despite not being recommended as the way to learn a language, learning about grammar, vocab and about pronunciation and the phonetic system of your target language will increase your speed of learning that language, your absorption rate per se, but it shouldn't take more than 5 to 10 percent of your time. Now as a disclaimer it takes thousands of listening hours to learn a language, so like you'll spend 100 hours tops learning vocab and grammar on the side, mostly in the beginning, but yes, thousands of hours. Because how many hours did you spend as a baby and toddler learning your native tongue? Well yeah, all your waking moments, so you have to imagine how many hours will add up if you listen 8 to 16 hours a day to a different language, why do you think in another comment someone was talking about how some people learned german in the military to perfection, if you're suddenly in a different country surrounded 24/7 by a new language, in a few months you'll learn it no problem. I personally have spent more than 25k hours 'immersing' as some will say, in English, which is a funny way to say instead of consuming media in my native language in the past 13 years I've instead consumed media in English, predominantly youtube. To put that into more digestible numbers, I've spend around 5 hours a day in those 13 years consuming some sort of English content. So like, if you have asd like me and can hyperfocus and have special interest than this is going to be easy, otherwise Idk.
In my opinion, one of the last great iterations of the quintessential Renaissance Man. Well rounded in all ways. An actor, musician, experienced combat veteran, polyglot; you name it. An absolute legend.
Even wrote a metal album about Charlemagne. Such an awesome person he was
You forgot knight, descendant of Charlemagne and heavy metal legend 😉
Life was taken more seriously back then. Nowadays they just think shit falls into place on it’s own. Instant gratification is your worst enemy
@@SplendidFellow I really thought he wrote a song about Charlemagne the singer for a hot minute until i realized lmfao.
@@Ihavehadmanynames7779 Where or when did it all go wrong? Why couldn't we catch the signs? We must've realize we were drifting to a point of being rudderless! I say we, because we all knew the signs, but we kept going deeper to a point of no return. No matter what philosophical bent you bare, a little piece of us all died on the road to purgatory. I just was wondering....was it the JFK assassination or Martin Luther King, Vietnam, 9-11? Maybe by 9-11, there was nothing worth fighting for?
As a native Spanish speaker I would love to hear him narrating the LOTR saga in this language, great pronunciation and love your accent Sir. Lee. R.I.P. gone but never forgotten.
I can say the same as a Frenchman, his French was excellent, you could tell he truly understood and respected the language just from the way he spoke.
@@haaxeu6501 same for his German. He didn't have an accent at all
@@MrTriple3D most french people don’t even respect their own language lmao
bro he dead
@@MrTriple3D what did French people do to you? talk to someone
One of the most amazing men of his generation who possessed a life well lived!
It’s amazing to watch his acting, never a confused moment, always focused like a razor!
Un hombre culto y un caballero, no se puede decir más! Se merece todos los elogios.
Definitivamente es un actor que hace mucha falta. Descanse en paz, Christopher Lee.
Gente así debería de ser inmortal
Sir lord Christopher lee..... insolente jajajajajajajajaj
Aun que se acabe el año, todavia sigue siendo inmortal, 100 años tiene.
Era una leyenda. Siempre me encantaba verlo en pantalla.
@@andresrodriguez6028 Epaaaaaaaa ahí, Sir Lord Count Christopher Lee
I was born in Italy, and he's Italian is even purer than mine, I studied Spanish for ten years and he's pronunciation is still better than mine, what a legend
He is part italian, so that helps.
Habla muy bien español, parece un personaje malvado de alguna película de Caballeros Medievales 😂
*His
@@JP_MaxSoy mexicano-americano. El español castellano de el prácticamente tiene nada de accento.
You should study english for 10 years as well, might learn the difference between "he's" and "his".
Him being a native English speaker and speaking Spanish with such good Castilian accent is absolutely impressive.
He0s Spanish is the weakest by far. He's really struggling with rehearsed written lines. while he's able to keep converations in the other languages.
@@Boredoutofmywits Yeah and? His* Spanish pronunciation was very good, which was the point of my comment. You won't see many native English speakers going all in with that accent. The sound of the C/Z, the hard R and the strong vowels are pretty difficult for them and the Castilian accent is the one that emphasizes them the most.
What a brilliant person. I interviewed him three times and it was a delight.
This man was a special operations officer in WWII and hunted nazis at the end of the war. In his unit, knowing so many languages probably wasn't just for fun, but mandatory for infiltration and espionage. The man told Peter Jackson how men sound when they're stabbed in the lung. A truer badass may never be seen again. Rest easy, warrior, poet, scholar and knight. Your legacy will live on forever
most likely he knew from experience what they sound like
And he released a heavy metal album when he was about 88 year old also.
True🙏😢
He also witnessed the last guillotine decapitation in France and even met Tolkien when he was still alive - decades before PJ even had the idea of turning Tolkien's tales into a movie trilogy
@@alexanderzack3720Peter Jackson just said he didn't ask how he knew that cause he knew he had served in SAS during WW2 😂
His Spanish sounds powerful.
El eterrrrno caballero...!
INDIANS WANTS DOLLAR FALLING DOWN
A great voice adequate for the subject he was speaking about (El Quijote)
When he talks in spanish all I hear is Saruman casting a spell
He can even speak gibberish and still sound powerful and dignified.
Maravilloso,desconocía que esta estrella del cine poseía está cultivada cualidad,todo un políglota,saludos desde Venezuela
He an Amazing Actor My Favorite !! Dracula !! 😂❤ He's Just so Handsome and So Intelligent ! He's just so Awesome!
his french is almost fluent and his accent is flawless like he was born in a french speaking country. Incredible for an englishman who is not a native nor a scholar.
Same with his german.
Only difference between him and a frenchman was that he wasn't an insufferable ass!
@@Luggi83 same with his italian.
somewhat same with his spanish
That´s true, i dont now how a person can talk so many language with a natural accent... magnifique
He said, his German ''isn't so good'' but he actually did the german dubbing for the evil king in ''The Last Unicorn'' in addition to the english one and his voice-acting was so good, that most people thought it was a german voice-actor and he sounds really good in this video here.
In addition to these languages here, he also knew to a lesser degree, ancient Greek, Latin, Russian and Swedish.
didn't he all of his german dubbing by himself?
@@CathrineMacNiel No the most movies Has voice actors
Latin does not surprise me actually, a good chunk of the languages he knows are actually Romance languages, French, Spanish, and Italian. English also has a bunch of words derived from Latin, but idk how much that counts because he was a native English speaker
@@jtraptor7776 I sold everything I owned and went to Brasil for a year back in 2013. I was with a Brasilian woman for 9 years prior to this, but I didn't learn any BP (Brasilian Portuguese) as she spoke fluent English, but I heard a lot of it.
4 months in Brasil and I was speaking as a native and getting compliments on my pronunciation and proficiency. When I eventually and regretfully returned to Canada, Home of the Cucked, I realized I could read the French on the back of packaging.
He also played the investigator in some German Edgar Wallace movies in the 60s.
It amazes me that we grew up with so many talented artists, but sometimes we don't appreciate it enough because we were young and only realize when they're gone. Rest in peace
As a native Spanish speaker, being totally honest, his Spanish level was REALLY good, I'd say still "far" to a native level, but still PRETTY good, more given he was English/British, which makes him start from a "harder" starter position to learn Spanish.
Amazing, a true devoted learner.
His german is impressive. He says he cant speak it well but speaks it fluently and almost sounds like a native. Rip legend
Lies again? Python Language
His french is impressive too tbh
Well language skills comes in handy when you where the real life James Bond
In fact - He would have been a Great James Bond !
@@HartmutJagerArt he was James Bond.. Ian Fleming is his cousin and based James bond on Christophers life as a agent
@@mullaoslo - Yes, I've heard about that too. Fact and fictions often mix - to various degrees of success. -
great comment :)
Really he was like James Bond in several times of his live, if i not mistaken he was former on the SAS in WW2.
A great actor, a good man...WE need more Christopher Lee
Ein fantastisches fast dialektloses Deutsch !!!
Meinen Respekt an diesen wundervollen Menschen und Film Darstellers des 20. Jahrhunderts !
Er bleibt bei uns allen als " Graf Dracula" und in anderen Rollen unvergesslich denke ich !!!
Einfach gesagt ein großartiger Mensch
👌👌👌👌
“It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the force, but by our skills with a lightsaber.”
My favorite quote from Count Dooku. Rest In Peace Christopher Lee.
It was nice to see him dust off his swashbuckling skills for the Star Wars franchise. He played pirates now and again in his early film career, and I was glad to see he still had the chops, so to speak.
It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our skills with a lightsaber, but by our knowledge of the lenguages
May the force be with him and with you
"My power are doubled since the last time we've met Count.."
Poliglota, espía, actor, cantante, descendiente de la nobleza, solado de excelencia, único miembro del cast de TLotR en haber conocido a Tolkein, de los pocos que vivieron para contar que presenció la última ejecución pública con guillotina en Francia... ¡Este hombre no es un hombre! ¡ES UNA PUTA LEYENDA!
You forgot occultist.
@@lulumoon6942 when was he occultist?
@@trickytreyperfected1482 in the movie "Charlie and the chocolate factory"
@@chucknorris9667 I feel like I'm missing something.
Unless like, we're talking about a cult against candy lol. But I assume we're talking about real life Christopher Lee, not his characters, so I'm still missing the context.
@@trickytreyperfected1482 you better dont know it then
I speak quite a few languages to some extent and I can understand what he is saying in all these, but his pronunciation and ability is amazing.
Doing interviews, where you cannot prepare in detail beforehand. Wow.
This has increased my already very high esteem of this man.
He was not only a fantastic actor, but he was also articulate and proficient in all of these languages. I'm Italian and his pronounciation is near flawless. I feel inspired to challenge myself and learn more languages after watching this.
When he speaks Italian/Spanish it looks like he's casting spells lmao
Sabes el significado de la palabra "weon"
Weon
😅
@@francoisnain6577 no
And you?
Ahahah that's true lol 🙈🤣
Perfect italian, I had no idea he could speak it so well
He actually had Italian blood too; he was descendant of noble Italian through his maternal great-grandfather who was, in fact, an Italian political refugee, Jerome Carandini, the Marquis of Sarzano, whose wife, Lee's great-grandmother, was English-born opera singer Marie Carandini...
@@Neko.Yashi_74
Hence his mom's last name Carandini which is Italian
@@mikhailabunidal9146 Thank you very much but I'm well aware of is Italian blood. I've always known it. I was just pointing out how good his Italian was.
Other than an accent, what screams, “Italian isn't my first language”?
@@Neko.Yashi_74
You're very welcome 😊
And not only that , his appearance was very Italian looking
Christopher Lee was such a remarkable man. Such a legend.
Merci beaucoup from Paris France 👍 👍 👍.
He was SUCH A LEGEND! A real life James Bond, veteran of two armies (he volunteered for Finnish army during the Winter War), an extraordinary actor, the lead singer for a heavy metal band, author of several books, and a good husband and father.
Didn't know he fought on our side too (I'm a finn), now I have something to brag about, haha
@Freddie Krueger Dooku too
He witnessed the last public execution by guillotine
And he had the opportunity to marry into Swedish royalty
Absolutely unstoppable
@@thomasnolastname8734 He is also a descending of Charlemagne.
What a legend!
Born of half Italian nobility, Carandini, Marquis of Sarzano, on his mother's side, spoke the language beautifully
Actors like him are a dying breed
I never knew about the nobility stuff, that’s really neat.
@@drakesmith471 he is a certified descendant of Charle magne, they even lookalike
@@johnnyfrolicsome664 WTF does that mean?
Also he’s the count of Serenno
@@minkorrh Charlemagne the king/Emperor of the Franks
Christopher Lee.. the best Dracula ever!! I loved his movies and voice. He had a terrific singing voice also!!
As a french I have to say he speaks incredibly well it’s impressive considering how difficult this language is (even for us lol)
As an Italian I'm particularly surprised with his performances in Spanish and Italian! He was great with accents and pronunciation of course, but his phasing, the pauses and even used the figures of speech correctly.
We will miss him forever.
Il secondo cognome di Christopher Lee era Carandini, da parte materna: Estelle Marie Carandini (1889-1981), nipote di Girolamo Carandini, marchese di Sarzano (1803-1870). Il 21 giugno 2004 gli è stata conferita la cittadinanza onoraria nella città di Casina, in provincia di Reggio Emilia, dove vissero i suoi antenati.
bravissimo davvero
True, both his pronounciation and his inflection are perfect and the phrasing - though relatively simple - is effective and formally correct... he may very well be mistaken for a native speaker
@@CandiesAintMe He's half Italian on his mother's side, who picked up his Italian from. He has cousins in Italy.
His accent in both Italian and Spanish is great. He speaks both with certain regional tones, and makes both sound elegant and powerful. What a legend!
Como español debo decir que leyó y pronunció muy bien las palabras, un hombre brillante.
Pero leer no es hablar,algo de conocimiento tiene por la manera de pronunciar las vocales y tal, pero hablar lo que es hablar, obviamente no sabe español
@@Master_II pero te consta que al final, en el últiml video, estaba leyendo?
@@Kev_pencils ???? Yo he visto este vídeo y ya está XD
@@Master_II perdón, me refería a la última parte del montaje. Hay otra grabación donde le habla a la cámara.
@@Kev_pencils Aún así sólo fueron 10 palabras que podía perfectamente haber memorizado o leído en una chuleta al lado de la cámara, como buen profesional que era y por el respeto que le tenía al público. No le estoy quitando mérito ya que, además de la cortesía, hizo el esfuerzo de intentar pronunciar correctamente, cosa que el 99% de los artistas de habla inglesa no hacen nunca. Pero de ahí a hablar el idioma hay un buen trecho.
Yo, que tengo una edad como para acordarme de sus apariciones en televisión como invitado, puedo asegurar que todas sus entrevistas las hizo siempre en inglés con pinganillo de traducción simultánea. Jamás en castellano.
The more I learn about Sir Christopher Lee, the more I'm convinced that he was, without a doubt, the most interesting man of all time.
RIP Christopher LEE 🕯️🙏🏻
His Spanish is fantastic, way better than I thought he’d be. What an absolute legend he was.
@@lacasadelavida292 Pensé que estaba leyendo en esa parte, quizás se le intentó dar un aire anticuado al texto por ser referente a El Quijote. De todos modos, se entiende todo muy bien, un capo
@@lacasadelavida292 have you never mispronounced anything in your life?
@@lacasadelavida292 Auténtico? eso no existe, cualquiera que haya estudiado lingüistica básica (diferencia entre lengua y habla) lo sabe. Yo hablo la variante más inauténtica (seguramente piensas eso), la de Chile.
Dude he was just reading a text.
I'm confused, he isn't allowed to make a mistake? He still spoke well.@@lacasadelavida292
His spanish is quite good,he kinda struggled with the "r" pronunciation but just few times some other times he pronounces them really smoothly and he nails the spanish (from spain) accent quite good ,he sounds really classy and with his deep voice it makes him sound like a really wise old professor giving a speech.
@@vale.may. Bueno eso ya suele ser cuestiones que deben tratarse a temprana edad ,pero por lo general no debiera ser asi.
@@Ezequiel-lh4ub Yeah although some people from my school had the same problem cuz we grew up learning french so yeah. I think I’ve gotten better at it though, but had to do it on my own.
And his "ch" sounded more like "sh"
yea is truth i mean no no es perfecto pero para no ser nativo se escucha bastante bien
Ojalá Cristopher Lee fuera mi profe
One of the greatest actors and stars ever. Miss the guy.
Gracias a usted, Merci Beacoup, Grazie, Danke and Thank you so much for so many years of great experiences in the big screen, sir. You are missed.
I have the feeling that he doesn't just speak these languages because he's memorized them, he knows what he's saying and understands it. This is a sign of high intelligence
He was a former agent of the MI6 so he definitely had a big IQ.
That.. is how languages work?
Uhhh what
I think OP is saying that he understands how to use the languages to communicate. It's one thing to pick up phrases in Duolingo. It's another to understand them in a native speaker's particular accent, and another to express yourself articulate!y. For example, the way he repeats words for emphasis and changes pitch to communicate nuance.
@@AzariahWolf yes, that's why ypu can't learn a language at school or through some app
As a French person his French accent had me speechless. He almost sounds like a native speaker
Trueeeeee
same in german
Always have mad respect for celebs who aren't that fluent in a language to have the balls to go to a chat show and try to banter & converse in it.
I never thought this was possible, but my already enormous respect for this guy just increased immensely.
His french was excellent. He had perfect diction and excellent "r" pronunciation.
The "r" is so very different in languages like English, German and French, yet he nailed all of them. Absolute legend.
Never heard anybody who isn't a native speak french that well. He had the intonations almost perfect
@@nessa-parmentier well the grammar was not very good, but it sounded near perfect to me.
I’m half French and his accent is definitely better than mine 😅
@@amaurythewarrior Il fait aucune faute de grammaire ?
His German actually sounds close to native. Really impressive, haven't seen many people do that, even when they have lived in Germany for a long time.
I feel like German pronunciation is easier for native English speakers, as they're closely related. Similar to how Romance language speakers will sound more proficient when speaking French, Italian, Spanish etc
Muchas gracias ti Christopher, muchas gracias a ti.
Sounds great in all languages he speaks. Legendary actor and person,with one of the greatest lives ever lived.
Il a un super accent français, c'est incroyable. Quel personnage ! Un grand homme, assurément.
Lo que mas me gusta es que pone un gran esfuerzo por pronunciar correctamente todos los idiomas. Me encanta este hombre.
thank you YT for remind me this magnificent video. R.I.P. Sir C. Lee
Absolutely exquisite!
He even does the French and German accents well, he doesn't just sound like an Englishman speaking them in their own accent. I guess that's somewhat due to his role in some very clandestine part of World War II.
As a french, I can confirm his French prononciation is almost perfect. I’m impressed, I even know french people who do no speak as good as this.
As a German - his German does have a slight accent but if I only heard him without knowing who he is or where he's from, I definitely wouldn't place him as Englishman. Maybe Southern Europe?
@@veladarney yeah his german is very good, but yeah southern sounding
@@derkerlmann6747 bro your pdp lmao !!!
@@user-yb5bj7fg5q what about it?
His Italian was incredibly impressive, the pronunciation of some words is very tricky for people speaking English as first language and he just does it greatly with no struggle
He was half italian
@@gage6355 the fact that he was half italian dosn't help him with the language XD
@@t3rmipvp if your mother is a native speaker of a language that definetely helps you with that language, probably he learned italian when he was a child
@@gage6355 it depends it's not always like that
He learned Italian as a child from his mother, an Italian Countessa of the Papal Nobility.
This guy is just amazing
He was an amazing man.I knew he was multilingual but hadn't heard him speaking other languages until now.Increases my respect and admiration,which were already high.I loved his curiosity and openness to new things.Heavy metal! And he not only had fun with it,he respected the musicians who performed with him.I was very sad to learn of his passing.