George Clooney’s Twins and More Bilingual Celeb Kids Who Speak Multiple Languages

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George Clooney's Twins and More Bilingual Celeb Kids Who Speak Multiple Languages

Bilingual babies! Chris Hemsworth, Rosamund Pike and more celebrity parents are raising their little ones to speak multiple languages. The actor wed Spanish model Elsa Pataky in December 2010, and the pair became parents two years later when daughter India arrived, followed by twin sons Sasha and Tristan in 2014. While the family of five moved to the Thor star’s native Australia in 2015, the pair are determined to teach their children Spanish. The little ones are “fluent,” but their dad can’t speak “one sentence,” he told Ellen DeGeneres in April 2018. When the Seriously I'm Kidding author told Hemsworth that becoming bilingual should be “easy” for him to learn since Pataky speaks it, the Home and Away alum replied, “You’d think. … My wife will be telling [the kids] off and I’ll be standing there like, ‘That’s right!’ [Then I ask her], ‘What does that mean?’” The Rush star noted that the language is usually only directed his way for “unfortunate, controversial, aggressive situations,” explaining, “I’m just thinking, ‘What is she saying right now?’ and ‘What’s my comeback to this?’ When we’re fighting, basically — which is never! If she gets angry enough, she’ll drop the English façade.” [jwplayer FY7Rdjct-zhNYySv2] As for Pike, the Gone Girl star’s two children, Solo and Atom, with partner Robie Uniacke are so fluent in Mandarin that they are teaching her the language. “[Uniacke] taught himself Chinese from the ground up,” the actress told Graham Norton in February 2021. “You could call it brilliant, you could call it really stubborn or you could call it a kind of desire for single parenting. He's basically talking to them in a language I don't understand so I thought maybe lockdown [amid the coronavirus pandemic] was a good opportunity for me to catch up." The Oscar nominee showed off a “perfect” sentence her children had taught her at the time, which translated to, “The act of taking your trousers off to fart." Later that same month, the Emmy winner celebrated Chinese New Year with an Instagram video. “It’s Chinese New Year! I have made an attempt at greeting all those celebrating tonight and welcoming the year of the cow. (Ha!),” the I Care A Lot star captioned the footage at the time. “What I have attempted to say is: 'Happy New Year! I hope this year brings prosperity! I am Rosamund Pike ( 裴淳华 -Péi Chúnhuá). I wish that behind your masks, you all wear a smile, and that all your cows produce calves!'" Keep scrolling to hear from more celebrity parents who have bilingual — or even trilingual — children, from George Clooney and Amal Clooney to Ariela Weinberg and Biniyam Shibre. [podcast_block]

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George Clooney's Twins and More Bilingual Celeb Kids Who Speak Multiple Languages

Bilingual babies! Chris Hemsworth, Rosamund Pike and more celebrity parents are raising their little ones to speak multiple languages. The actor wed Spanish model Elsa Pataky in December 2010, and the pair became parents two years later when daughter India arrived, followed by twin sons Sasha and Tristan in 2014. While the family of five moved to the Thor star’s native Australia in 2015, the pair are determined to teach their children Spanish. The little ones are “fluent,” but their dad can’t speak “one sentence,” he told Ellen DeGeneres in April 2018. When the Seriously I'm Kidding author told Hemsworth that becoming bilingual should be “easy” for him to learn since Pataky speaks it, the Home and Away alum replied, “You’d think. … My wife will be telling [the kids] off and I’ll be standing there like, ‘That’s right!’ [Then I ask her], ‘What does that mean?’” The Rush star noted that the language is usually only directed his way for “unfortunate, controversial, aggressive situations,” explaining, “I’m just thinking, ‘What is she saying right now?’ and ‘What’s my comeback to this?’ When we’re fighting, basically — which is never! If she gets angry enough, she’ll drop the English façade.” [jwplayer FY7Rdjct-zhNYySv2] As for Pike, the Gone Girl star’s two children, Solo and Atom, with partner Robie Uniacke are so fluent in Mandarin that they are teaching her the language. “[Uniacke] taught himself Chinese from the ground up,” the actress told Graham Norton in February 2021. “You could call it brilliant, you could call it really stubborn or you could call it a kind of desire for single parenting. He's basically talking to them in a language I don't understand so I thought maybe lockdown [amid the coronavirus pandemic] was a good opportunity for me to catch up." The Oscar nominee showed off a “perfect” sentence her children had taught her at the time, which translated to, “The act of taking your trousers off to fart." Later that same month, the Emmy winner celebrated Chinese New Year with an Instagram video. “It’s Chinese New Year! I have made an attempt at greeting all those celebrating tonight and welcoming the year of the cow. (Ha!),” the I Care A Lot star captioned the footage at the time. “What I have attempted to say is: 'Happy New Year! I hope this year brings prosperity! I am Rosamund Pike ( 裴淳华 -Péi Chúnhuá). I wish that behind your masks, you all wear a smile, and that all your cows produce calves!'" Keep scrolling to hear from more celebrity parents who have bilingual — or even trilingual — children, from George Clooney and Amal Clooney to Ariela Weinberg and Biniyam Shibre. [podcast_block]

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Artem Chigvintsev

The Dancing With the Stars’ pro’s son, Matteo, is “a little confused between English and Russian,” Chigvintsev exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2022. “[Nikki Bella] and I … speak to him in English,” he added. “But then when I'm with my mom on the phone … she talks to him Russian, and I talk to him in Russian too during those times.”

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George Clooney

"We did a really dumb thing, which is, they speak fluent Italian," the actor told Jimmy Kimmel of twins Alexander and Ella in December 2020. "I mean fluent Italian at 3. But I don't speak Italian, my wife doesn't speak Italian, so we've armed them with a language.”

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Angelina Jolie

In June 2016, the Salt star told BBC that all six of her kids are learning a new language. "I asked them what languages they wanted to learn," Jolie explained at the time. "Shi[loh] is learning Khmai, which is the Cambodian language, Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad[dox] has taken to German and Russian, Z[ahara] is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic and Knox is learning sign language.”

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Ariela Weinberg

"I’ve been really pushing [him to be bilingual],” the 90 Day Fiancé alum exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2022 of her and Shibre's son, Aviel. “I don’t want him to go back to Ethiopia and then not speak the language. So that’s, like, the most exciting thing for me is when he says new words.”

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Shakira

"It helps if they are able to associate a person with a language at this early stage to minimize language confusion," the singer told POPSUGAR in March 2016 of sons Milan and Sasha. "Their father, [Gerard Piqué], for example, always speaks to them in Catalan. I try to speak to them in mostly English, but if I switch, I try to not mix two languages in one sentence. Their first words were both 'mama.'"

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Chris Hemsworth

"If I hear Spanish, I'm in trouble," the Cabin in the Woods star joked to DeGeneres.

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Eva Longoria

The Desperate Housewives alum told Parents magazine in August 2019 that her son, Santiago, is learning to speak Spanish.

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Matthew McConaughey

"The kids are taking Portuguese classes," the actor told Jimmy Fallon in 2016 ahead of a trip to visit his wife Camila Alves' family in Brazil. "They already know a lot of Portuguese, but they're taking Portuguese classes five hours a day ... in prep."

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Ricky Martin

The "Livin' La Vida Loca" singer told DeGeneres in 2013 that his and Jwan Yosef's kids speak Spanish at home but also attend a French school. "That's the beautiful thing about New York," he gushed at the time. "It's such a diverse city, culturally speaking, and you have the opportunity to bring your kids into this school which goes by the French system. I want them to be exposed to all this."

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Rosamund Pike

While doing press for Gone Girl in 2015, Pike revealed that her partner gave her a Chinese name.

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Salma Hayek

In 2010, the House of Gucci star gushed about her daughter, Valentina, already speaking "three languages."