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Yeah that's what I found so impressive. It's not just that she “knows” so many languages, but that she can reproduce the sounds in each that aren't similar across language families. I've known people that knew a lot of different languages but they still were obviously anglicized — or whatevercized based on the native tongue (even made up “alien” languages in movies tend to have the hallmark dipthongs and inflections of the people that made the language) but she was incredible.
She's got a fine ear for accents and very nice control.
Yeah that's what I found so impressive. It's not just that she “knows” so many languages, but that she can reproduce the sounds in each that aren't similar across language families. I've known people that knew a lot of different languages but they still were obviously anglicized — or whatevercized based on the native tongue (even made up “alien” languages in movies tend to have the hallmark dipthongs and inflections of the people that made the language) but she was incredible.
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