Bilingual babies! Chris Hemsworth, Rosamund PikeCelebrities are encouraging their children to learn multiple languages.
The actor got married to a Spanish model Elsa PatakyIn December 2010, the couple became parents when India, their daughter, arrived. Tristan and Sasha were born in 2014.
The family of five moved into 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 DeGeneresApril 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.”
Pike is the most popular fish. Gone Girl star’s two children, Solo and Atom, with partner Robie UniackeThey are fluent in Mandarin and are now teaching her the language.
“[Uniacke] taught himself Chinese from the ground up,” the actress told Graham NortonIn 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 month, the Emmy-winning winner celebrated Chinese New Year with an Instagram Video.
“It’s Chinese New Year! I have tried to greet everyone celebrating tonight, and to welcome the year for the cow. (Ha!),” theI Care A LotThe footage was captioned by star at the time. “What I have attempted to say is: ‘Happy New Year! I wish this year brings you prosperity! I am Rosamund Pike ( 裴淳华 -Péi Chúnhuá). I wish that you all smile behind your masks and all your cows produce calves.’”
Keep scrolling to hear from more celebrity parents who have bilingual — or even trilingual — children, from George Clooney Amal ClooneyTo Ariela Weinberg Biniyam Shibre.
