Michael Fassbender

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Very true! And with Norway being such a tiny player in the European film industry I'm sure Michael's presence there was greatly appreciated. I saw the expressions on some of the Amanda guests faces when Michael was announced by Jakob - well impressed!

Here's another pic of him at the awards last night from Instagram:

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Totally agree with you I'm so happy he was there yesterday. Thanks for this!
 
I'm in total agreement with all of this. We in Britain and Ireland fall way behind other Europeans when it comes to bothering to learn a second language fluently. Unless you are like Michael and have strong family influence from another language, we leave it up to school. I must say though that recent changes to Modern Foreign Languages in the education system will hopefully begin to change that. It will take time but at least it's being worked on. I'm always very embarrassed when someone says "excuse my bad English". What I wouldn't give to speak another language fluently like Alicia.
This was an interesting article about languages in Europe.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/26/europeans-multiple-languages-uk-ireland

Well UK/US natives are "lucky" enough their language is spoken all over the world, that's why they generally don't really bother to learn another language, and I can understand it, well, it's normal. But I don't know if I should consider this a good thing, learning another language is important and useful for culture and mental exercise [emoji28]
Personally I don't know many languages but I love learning things. I studied Russian for few years and now I can say I can read it, I can say some words and sentences but I'd be definitely f***ed if I was in trouble in Russia [emoji23]
 
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I'm in total agreement with all of this. We in Britain and Ireland fall way behind other Europeans when it comes to bothering to learn a second language fluently. Unless you are like Michael and have strong family influence from another language, we leave it up to school. I must say though that recent changes to Modern Foreign Languages in the education system will hopefully begin to change that. It will take time but at least it's being worked on. I'm always very embarrassed when someone says "excuse my bad English". What I wouldn't give to speak another language fluently like Alicia.
This was an interesting article about languages in Europe.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/26/europeans-multiple-languages-uk-ireland

I hope the changes in Modern Foreign Languages in the education system do address our embarrassing deficiencies! Starting to learn another language age 5 and having an incentive would help!

I hope Alicia is teaching Michael some Swedish too [emoji6]
 
This is something I really admire. His devotion to this art is [emoji1316].
And indeed, not so many famous actor are as passionate as he is.

I believe he is an easy to go along guy who loves to social , not selfish and have many friends. The fact that he travelled all the way to attend an event in a Scandinavian country said a lot. This definitely won't boost his acting career but he is willing to do it.
 
Unless English is a first language since childhood - yes. Otherwise the thinking process is already pre-set by the first language learnt.

THIS.
Omg this. I remember in my phonetic class few years ago they explain how a learning process for a language is linked to your previous thinking process (set by your language). So true. The way people put words in a sentence are completely different in every different language. It's impossible to be able to speak 100% perfect putting your words in a 100% perfect order while you think of the best things to say.
It's a nightmare, trust me [emoji1316][emoji23]
 
Gosh if I only was able to speak a foreign language as she is! [emoji30]
Btw talking about languages... I heard Entering Hades was probably going to be in German.. ;) Michael said he had to improve his accent etc. It'd be cool!

Good for him to brush up his German and works with other talents from Europe. He doesn't have to limit himself working with same group of people
 
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