Many others assumed Affleck learned Spanish from his wife, Jennifer Lopez, but as it turns out, he began speaking it as a child. When he was 13, Affleck was cast in a television show that spent a year filming in Mexico. He learned the basics over time, then he continued practicing as an adult.
Affleck and his younger brother Casey learned Spanish while living in Mexico as teenagers. You might also see Affleck speaking his second language on red carpets or for Spanish-speaking news outlets.
After his parents divorced when he was nine, Affleck and his older brother, Ben, lived with their mother and visited their father weekly. He learned to speak Spanish during a year spent traveling around Mexico with his mother and brother when he was ten.
Matt Damon learned Spanish when he was 15 years old in Mexico and in Guatemala, where he went backpacking. His wife is from Argentina, and his two children are also fluent in Spanish.
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Does Dwayne Johnson speak Spanish?
Though Dwayne admittedly is far from bilingual, he did open up about his “Latin” roots. “I was once married to a Cuban woman,” Johnson told People en Español. “And when we would talk, I learned how to say the word 'kiss' in Spanish. That of course, is 'beso'.”
We went to New York to talk to him about his career and his interest in the Spanish language. To our surprise he was able to answer a few words in our language and confessed to us that in his next movie he will, again, speak Spanish.
He has English, Irish, Scottish, German, Swedish, Swiss, Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), Welsh and French ancestry. The surname "Affleck" is of Scottish origin, and his middle name, "Géza", was the name of a family friend. He was raised in a mostly Episcopalian family.
He said in a 2012 interview with The Guardian that he studied Spanish through immersion in Mexico as a teenager, and later put those skills to use as he backpacked through Mexico and Guatemala.
Gomez was fluent in Spanish as a child growing up in the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie, though her grasp of the language faded as she got older. Between years of touring and acting, Gomez has said, she had to repeatedly delay her plans to focus on a Spanish-language release.
Mexico has the world's largest Spanish speaking-population—by a wide margin—but the US currently has the world's fourth largest Spanish-speaking population, when measuring native Spanish speakers.
Matt is fluent in Spanish and English and picked up on the language during his backpack excursion through Mexico and Guatemala. He is also married to the beautiful Argentinian, Luciana Barroso.
As shown in this 2013 interview during the “Iron Man 3” press junket, Paltrow is fluent in Spanish. In the interview, the actress explains that she studied the language in high school in New York. However, she perfected her Spanish by traveling to Spain as an exchange student at 15 years old.
I'm Jennifer Lopez from the Bronx. And my parents are Puerto Rican, I'm Puerto Rican. ' And I think it made me feel special." Lopez also recalls loving her body despite not seeing many other women who looked like her.
Early life. Jennifer Lynn López was born on July 24, 1969, in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, and raised in its Castle Hill neighborhood. Her parents, David López and Guadalupe Rodríguez, were born in Puerto Rico and met in New York City.
"When I speak in Spanish, the young parts of me come out, the ones that have been in my subconscious since I was born [when] I lived in Cuba and Mexico," she said, according to an English translation of the interview.
Many others assumed Affleck learned Spanish from his wife, Jennifer Lopez, but as it turns out, he began speaking it as a child. When he was 13, Affleck was cast in a television show that spent a year filming in Mexico. He learned the basics over time, then he continued practicing as an adult.
After being inseparable through grammar and high school, Damon enrolled in Harvard University, though he and Affleck remained close. Two years later, Affleck attended the University of Vermont. Affleck explained that he chose the school because he wanted to be with his high school girlfriend.
So Ben Affleck, what's your rating out of 10? Give him a 9 out of 10. I think he did an awesome job bringing it back. But he's not born in Boston, but he got his accent, you know, as growing up in Massachusetts.
Did you know Ben Affleck is bilingual? While speaking about his new movie "Air," the Oscar winner showcased his conversationally fluent Spanish in an interview with Spain-based radio network La Cadena SER, which was posted on the outlet's TikTok account on April 3.
All my life I've been speaking Spanish, since I lived in Uvalde, Texas, eighty miles from the Mexican border. My brother also can talk in Spanish as well as all my friends from there; most of them actually were Mexicans and I've been in Spain, and here in California I speak Spanish quite often, too. Q.
Ferrell admitted to MTV News that while he knows "a little bit" of Spanish, he's far from fluent in the language, having to rely on memorizing lines phonetically. In other words, Ferrell wasn't exactly able to improvise, and he had to work incredibly hard to get the lines just right.
