He first learnt English from the readers and primers he found in his parent's house in the jungle. I believe Jane taught him when they first came together to speak English. He also spent some time together with a Frenchman who taught him French as well as English.
Tarzan is literate in English before he first encounters other English-speaking people. His literacy is self-taught after several years in his early teens by visiting the log cabin of his infancy and looking at children's primer/picture books.
Tarzan begins his language acquisition after he meets Jane, the one who teaches him language and humans' habit. Jane realized that he was with a wild man. Tarzan and Jane introduced themselves each other. Tarzan imitated every word that Jane spoke to him.
Tarzan was an incrediby gifted linguist. He learned to converse in many animal languages. His first human language of fluency was French, taught to him by a French officer that he encountered in the jungle. He readily picked up English once given the chance.
Tarzan was supposed to speak with both an English accent and an American accent depending on whether he was speaking to humans or gorillas but Tony Goldwyn's English accent was so bad, he just stuck to American for the entire movie.
Tarzan does not pass it process; he does not have parents or caregiver and environment that are able to teach him language. Therefore, he does not speak and has no language at all until he meets other humans.
The Mangani, the apes who raised him, had a language, but they didn't really have an accent. As a result, if I remember correctly, when Tarzan was taught French by Paul D'arnot, he spoke it without an accent, yet strangely spoke English, also taught to him by D'arnot, with a French accent.
“Tarzan of the Apes” was the creation of Edgar Rice Burroughs, but he may have gotten his inspiration for the character from the Fourteenth Earl of Streatham. In 1868, a young English nobleman named William Mildin was shipwrecked off the African Coast. The 11-year-old boy was apparently adopted by monkeys (apes?).
According to a Cast Member who played the iconic Jack Sparrow in Disneyland Park, one character was cut from the lineup of walk-around characters due to multiple accounts of sexual harassment. The male character they had pulled was Tarzan. He moved around the tree house dressed in just a butt flap.
"William Mildin, 14th Earl of Streatham, was the real-life inspiration for Tarzan of the Apes. In 1868 he was shipwrecked off West Africa at the age of 11, and spent 15 years living in the jungle, after which he lived in Thrale Road (not much difference there, then)."
A real-life "Tarzan" who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for four decades has died of liver cancer at the age of 52, The Times reported. Ho Van Lang returned to civilization in 2013 after he spent his entire life in the dense Vietnamese jungle with his father, Ho Van Than.
The impaired ability to learn language after having been isolated for so many years is often attributed to the existence of a critical period for language learning at an early age, and is taken as evidence in favor of the critical period hypothesis.
Only the "civilized” races can display true masculinity and triumph over those who are "uncivilized" -- white dominates black - but "civilization" also corrupts man, leaving him in a weakened physical state, having lost, to a degree, his "primal" energy. Tarzan reconciles this paradox.
Throughout the entirety of the movie, Tarzan's exact age is never revealed. However, in the original novel Tarzan of the Apes, he was said to be one years old when his parents died and 21 years of age when he met a 19-year-old Jane Porter.
In March 1934, the Berlin Film Control Board banned Tarzan of the Apes since it was deemed "dangerous to Nazi principles of race-consciousness and offensive to Nazi ideals of matrimony and womanly dignity (a foreshadowing of the banning of Tarzan books by a librarian in the United States 30 years later -- an event that ...
Against a production budget of $130 million (then the most expensive traditionally animated film ever made until Treasure Planet in 2002), the film grossed $448.2 million worldwide, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 1999, the second highest-grossing animated film of 1999 behind Toy Story 2, and the first ...
Tarzan Triumphs could have been subtitled “Me Tarzan, Where Jane?” for with the series moving from MGM Studios to RKO Pictures they lost Maureen O'Sullivan as she was an MGM contract player. Jane would be explained away as, “Visiting her sick mother in London” and wouldn't show up for a couple pictures.
While Burroughs never said exactly where Tarzan was set, Cameroon's sandy beaches, imposing jungle and ape sanctuaries seem like a good bet – so much so that the West African country was chosen as the setting for the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
Sabor is finally killed as she is impaled on the head of Tarzan's spear tip when the ape man raises it against the ferocious leopard, thus killing the animal.
In the invented language, Mangani (meaning "great-ape") is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied (with modifications) to humans. The Mangani are represented as the apes who foster and raise Tarzan.
Tarzan (White-skin) is his ape name; his English name is John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (the formal title is Viscount Greystoke according to Burroughs in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle; Earl of Greystoke in later, non-canonical sources, notably the 1984 movie Greystoke).
He shaved with a knife, in order to keep a part of his humanity. As Edgar Rice Borroughs cites in "Tarzan of the Apes": "True, he had seen pictures in his books of men with great masses of hair upon lip and cheek and chin, but, nevertheless, Tarzan was afraid.
