Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Nick\u00a0Jonas<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Priyanka](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/P103MIA4.jpg?w=240\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Savion Washington\/2026GG\/Penske Media\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPriyanka Chopra Jonas did such a good job teaching daughter Malti, born in 2022, to speak Hindi, that now the toddler is teaching her dad! The\u00a0Citadel\u00a0<\/em>star shared a sweet video<\/a> of Malti correcting her dad Nick Jonas on the pronunciation of \u201cek,\u201d or \u201cone\u201d in Hindu in Oct. 2024.<\/p>\n\u201cIn Hindi\u2026\u201d Malti begins in the video before trailing off. The Jonas Brothers singer asks, \u201cIn Hindi, what? What is it? \u2018Ake\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, no, in Hindi,\u00a0ek,<\/em>\u201d she corrects. Then she continues counting in Hindi with her adorable little voice.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nOlivia Munn<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Olivia](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-sheknows-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\")
![\"Olivia](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/P103ZN6O.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Michael Buckner\/Variety\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nNot only did Olivia Munn give her son Malcolm a bilingual name (his middle name, Hi\u1ec7p, is Vietnamese), but also, she is teaching him to speak the language.<\/p>\n
In an Oct. 2022 Instagram video<\/a> with husband John Mulaney, Munn revealed, \u201cHis first word was Daddy\/Dada \ud83d\ude0d, his second word was ch\u00f3 (Vietnamese for dog), and his third word is car \ud83d\ude98.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nJeannie Mai<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Jeannie](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/P103MBU8.jpg?w=200\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Jesse Grant\/2026GG\/Penske Media\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJeannie Mai\u2019s daughter Monaco, born in 2022, speaks Vietnamese<\/a> with the sweetest raspy voice. In a 2023 appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show<\/em><\/a>, the proud mom explained, \u201cI\u2019m teaching her Vietnamese, so she speaks English and Vietnamese. I mean, she pretty much understands everything we say in Vietnamese, which is so cool because that\u2019s how I learned to speak. I have to speak it fully at home, and then when you go to school, you\u2019ll learn English like that [snaps].\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cMonaco is going to experience all of the cultures that the melting pot that is San Jose has,\u201d the\u00a0Raid the Cage<\/em>\u00a0host added. \u201cI want Monaco to feel where I came from and to understand that my parents immigrated here, straight to the Bay from Vietnam, and there\u2019s so much life that came from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nSerena Williams<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Serena](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/P102ZNWX.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Michael Buckner\/Variety\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEver since Serena Williams\u2019 daughter Adira, born in 2023, and Olympia, born in 2017, were born, the 23-time Grand Slam champion has been teaching them French. She\u2019s shared several videos<\/a> of these casual French lessons, like when she coached Adira to pick up the \u201cbleue\u201d (blue) toy, then the \u201cverte\u201d (green) toy while playing. She makes it look so easy!<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nCardi B<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Cardi](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/P10408ZP.jpg?w=240\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Alberto Rodriguez\/Variety\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCardi B has been teaching her daughter Blossom, born in 2024, Spanish. In a video obtained by Hola<\/a>, her daughter asks for \u201cagua\u201d (water), and the proud mom encourages her to say it again.\u00a0<\/p>\nIn Aug. 2022, Cardi B shared a video<\/a> of her daughter Kulture, born in 2018, speaking Spanish while visiting relatives in the Dominican Republic. It\u2019s clear teaching her kids Spanishi is a priority!<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nJimmy Fallon & Nancy\u00a0Juvonen<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Jimmy](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/P10Y5HI.jpg?w=232\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: John Nacion\/Variety\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJimmy Fallon and wife Nancy Juvonen have been introducing their daughters Winnie, born in 2013, and Frances, born in 2014, to different languages since they were born.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs soon as they were born, we were reading to them,\u201d Fallon told E! News<\/a> in Oct. 2022, \u201cand when you get nerdy when you have your first baby you get so into reading every book and every article about how do we make our kids geniuses.’\u201d<\/p>\nHe continued, \u201cI got all these different books in different languages.\u00a0I got\u00a0Green Eggs and Ham\u00a0in Italian, but the whole book is in Italian. I don\u2019t know how to speak Italian.\u201d<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Saturday Night Live\u00a0<\/em>alum even wrote a Spanish-English children\u2019s book, Con Pollo,\u00a0<\/em>with Jennifer Lopez, to encourage other parents to teach their kids a new language.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cMy kids are learning Spanish in school now,\u201d he added. \u201cSo this is perfect for their age group.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nLin-Manuel Miranda & Vanessa\u00a0Nadal<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Vanessa](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/P101PM9K.jpg?w=214\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: John Nacion\/Variety\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhen Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s son Sebastian, born in 2014, was just 2, he was already bilingual. The Hamilton<\/em> creator, who shares Sebastian and son Francisco, born in 2018, with wife Vanessa Nadal, told PEOPLE<\/a> in Nov. 2016, \u201cIt\u2019s adorable to see him sense who he\u2019s talking to and translate. He\u2019ll be like, \u2018Leche?\u2019 No, Milk?\u2019 and that\u2019s kind of incredible. He\u2019s like a sponge and he\u2019s got a smattering of German, too. My mother-in-law is Austrian, so he\u2019s got one language up on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nEva Longoria<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Eva](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2410F02_UH043.jpg?w=207\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEva Longoria revealed in a June 2023 appearance on\u00a0The Kelly Clarkson Show\u00a0<\/em>that her son Santiago, born in 2018, speaks better Spanish than she does.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cI didn\u2019t grow up speaking Spanish,\u201d the Desperate Housewives <\/em>alum said, per PEOPLE<\/a>. \u201cWe lived in Mexico City and I was just shooting in Spain. He\u2019s super fluent and corrects me all the time and he does it with, like, attitude.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s so disappointed in my Spanish,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
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\nAlejandra Gere & Richard\u00a0Gere<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Alejandra](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/2421N04_KH094.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Kristin Callahan\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRichard Gere lives in Spain with wife Alejandra Gere and their two sons Alexander, born in 2019, and James, born in 2020. He told Page Six<\/a> in April 2025, \u201cMy wife is so happy there. Her family is there, her culture is there, [our] youngest kids are growing up there, their Spanish is perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nAmal Clooney & George\u00a0Clooney<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Amal](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/NinaW-Albies-2.jpg?w=200\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Nina Westervelt for Variety\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nGeorge Clooney admitted in 2022<\/a> that he and his wife Amal made a \u201cterrible mistake\u201d by having twins Ella and Alexander learn a second language.<\/p>\n\u201cWe taught them Italian,\u201d George said on an appearance on CBS Mornings<\/em>. But we don\u2019t speak Italian. So, we\u2019ve armed them with a language that they can harm us with, and we don\u2019t really know what they\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nHeidi Klum<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Heidi](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/NinaW-Albies-288.jpg?w=200\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Nina Westervelt for Variety\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHeidi Klum\u2019s kids Leni, born in 2004, Henry, born in 2005, Johan, born in 2006, and Lou, born in 2009 \u2014 who she shares with ex husband Seal \u2014 all speak German. Teaching them is something she feels strongly about. \u201cThey\u2019re bilingual. Completely,\u201d the model told PEOPLE<\/a> in April 2009. \u201cYou owe that to your children if you have the ability to speak another language.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nZoe Salda\u00f1a<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Zoe](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AER_2855.jpg?w=199\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Alberto Rodriguez for Variety\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nZoe Salda\u00f1a\u2019s three kids \u2014 twins Cy and Bowie, born in 2014, and Zen, born in 2016, who she shares with husband Marco Perego \u2014 are trilingual and confidently speak English, Italian, and Spanish.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey understand all three languages, and they also choose who they speak the languages with,\u201d the actress told PEOPLE in 2017<\/a>. \u201cSo with their Italian grandparents they will speak in Italian, with their [Spanish-speaking] grandparents they speak in Spanish, and with Mama and Papa they will speak back in English \u2014 but they understand in any language we speak to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nAngelina Jolie & Brad\u00a0Pitt<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Angelina](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AngelinaJolieBradPitt.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Gregorio T. Binuya\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBrangelina may be no more, but Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt\u2019s<\/a> combined efforts to teach their children multiple languages are still going strong. \u201cNone of my kids want to be actors, thank God,\u201d Jolie said while hosting a BBC Radio 4\u2019s Women\u2019s Hour<\/a> June 2016 segment. \u201cThey\u2019re interested in being musicians. And they are all learning different languages.\u201d<\/p>\nJolie revealed that their six children speak seven languages among them. \u201cAll the kids are learning different languages,\u201d she said. \u201cI asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is the Cambodian language, Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nChris Hemsworth & Elsa\u00a0Pataky<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Chris](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ChrisHemsworthElsaPataky.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Jason Mendez\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nChris Hemsworth<\/a> is supportive of his wife, Spanish actress and model Elsa Pataky, teaching their children to be fluent in Spanish. The couple share daughter India, born in 2012, and twin sons Tristan and Sasha, born in 2014. \u201cYeah, they\u2019re fluent in Spanish,\u201d Hemsworth said during an April 2018 Ellen<\/em><\/a> interview. While the actor admits he can only speak \u201cone sentence\u201d of his wife\u2019s native language, he says his children fluent. \u201cWhen I hear the Spanish directed at me, it\u2019s usually unfortunate, controversial, aggressive situations,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m just thinking, \u2018What is she saying right now?\u2019 and, \u2018What\u2019s my comeback to this?\u2019 When we\u2019re fighting, basically, which is never! If she gets angry enough, she\u2019ll drop the English fa\u00e7ade.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nEva Mendes & Ryan\u00a0Gosling<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Eva](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/EvaMendes.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEva Mendes and husband Ryan Gosling have gotten candid<\/a> about the challenges that come with raising their daughters, Amada and Esmeralda, bilingual. \u201cI\u2019m Cuban\u2026 so yeah, we\u2019re trying to teach the kids Spanish, and it\u2019s harder than I thought,\u201d Mendes said in a May 2019 interview on The Talk.<\/em><\/a> \u201cBecause I speak Spanglish and that\u2019s what they\u2019re picking up. So it\u2019s adorable, but it\u2019s technically not a language. It\u2019s Spanglish.\u201d<\/p>\nMendes has also opened up about her efforts to immerse her children in Cuban culture. \u201cWe\u2019re constantly playing Cuban music,\u201d Mendes said in an August 2016 Vanity Fair<\/a> interview. \u201cI speak to them in Spanish, and my mom speaks to Esmeralda in Spanish. Well, now she speaks to both of them in Spanish. Any time I have an opportunity to introduce her or them\u2026 to my culture, whether it\u2019s through music, or through food, I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nMatthew McConaughey & Camila\u00a0Alves<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Camila](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MatthewMcConaugheyCamilaAlves.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Priscilla Grant\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMatthew McConaughey\u2019s wife, Camila Alves,<\/a> is from Brazil, so naturally the famous couple are raising their children to speak her native language, Portuguese. \u201cThe kids are taking Portuguese classes for the last week,\u201d right before their family headed to Brazil to visit Alves\u2019 relatives, McConaughey said in a December 2016 interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThey already know a lot of Portuguese, but they\u2019re taking Portuguese classes five hours a day for the last week in preperation for going on this trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nRicky Martin & Jwan\u00a0Yosef<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Ricky](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/RickyMartin.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: JA\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRicky Martin<\/a> is very open about life with soon-to-be ex-husband Jwan Yosef and their four children: twins Valentino and Matteo (b. 2013), Lucia (b. 2018), and Renn (b. 2019). The singer credits them for helping him to come out, and one reason he says he talks about them so often is to help \u201cnormalize\u201d families like his<\/a>. One particularly unique aspect of life in their household? Multiple languages are spoken.\u00a0<\/p>\nIn a September 2013 Ellen<\/em> interview<\/a>, Martin said he and Yosef speak Spanish and English in the house. And Valentino and Matto go to a French school, meaning the older boys can speak Spanish, English and French. \u201cThat\u2019s the beautiful thing about New York,\u201d Martin said of the city where the family has a home. \u201cIt\u2019s such a diverse city, culturally speaking, and you have the opportunity to bring your kids to this school that goes by the French system,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI want them to be exposed more.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nShakira & Gerard\u00a0Piqu\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Shakira](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Shakira.jpg?w=216\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Dee Cercone\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nShakira<\/a> and her ex Gerard Piqu\u00e9, share children Milan, born in 2013, and Sasha, born in 2015. The Colombian singer launched a bilingual parenting app called Grow,<\/a> in partnership with Fisher-Price, back in 2016. While promoting the app, Shakira offered some insight into her own experience raising bilingual children.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cIt helps if they are able to associate a person with a language at this early stage, to minimize language confusion,\u201d Shakrai told Popsugar<\/a> in March 2016. \u201cTheir father, for example, always speaks to them in Catalan. I try to speak to them in mostly English, but if I switch, I try to not mix two languages in one sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n- \n
\nRosamund Pike & Robie\u00a0Uniake<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Rosamund](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/RosamundPike.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Gregorio T. Binuya\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRosamund Pike<\/a> and husband Robie Uniake share sons Solo, born in 2012, and Atom, born in 2014. In a February 2021 interview on The Graham Norton Show,<\/em><\/a> Pike revealed that their children speak Mandarin \u2014 and that it was mainly her husband\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve got my kids homeschooling me,\u201d Pike said. \u201cBecause my kids speak Mandarin, and I don\u2019t. They grew up bilingual, really, because my partner thought he was going to have more kids, because he had had four already, and he thought it might be exciting for him to talk to them in a language that we don\u2019t already know,\u201d Pike said. \u201cSo he taught himself Chinese from the ground-up.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the Covid-19 pandemic, she finally learned the language herself. \u201cHe\u2019s basically talking to them in a language I don\u2019t understand so I thought maybe lockdown was a good opportunity for me to catch up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nSalma Hayek & Fran\u00e7ois-Henri\u00a0Pinault<\/h2>\n\n\t\t![\"Salma](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/SalmaHayek.jpg?w=300\")
\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Jason Smith\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nActress Salma Hayek and her husband, Fran\u00e7ois-Henri Pinault, share an only child, Valentina, born in 2007. At just 2 years old, the famous couple\u2019s daughter was already trilingual. \u201cShe speaks three languages,\u201d Hayek told People Moms & Babies<\/em><\/a> in April 2010. \u201cShe\u2019s speaking fluently\u2026English, Spanish, and French,\u201d Pinault added. \u201cShe can have a conversation.\u201d<\/p>\nAt the time, Hayek was also learning multiple languages alongside her tot. \u200b\u200b\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how fast it comes,\u201d Pinault continued. \u201cShe\u2019s teaching French to her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
Priyanka Chopra Jonas did such a good job teaching daughter Malti, born in 2022, to speak Hindi, that now the toddler is teaching her dad! The\u00a0Citadel\u00a0<\/em>star shared a sweet video<\/a> of Malti correcting her dad Nick Jonas on the pronunciation of \u201cek,\u201d or \u201cone\u201d in Hindu in Oct. 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Hindi\u2026\u201d Malti begins in the video before trailing off. The Jonas Brothers singer asks, \u201cIn Hindi, what? What is it? \u2018Ake\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo, no, in Hindi,\u00a0ek,<\/em>\u201d she corrects. Then she continues counting in Hindi with her adorable little voice.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Not only did Olivia Munn give her son Malcolm a bilingual name (his middle name, Hi\u1ec7p, is Vietnamese), but also, she is teaching him to speak the language.<\/p>\n In an Oct. 2022 Instagram video<\/a> with husband John Mulaney, Munn revealed, \u201cHis first word was Daddy\/Dada \ud83d\ude0d, his second word was ch\u00f3 (Vietnamese for dog), and his third word is car \ud83d\ude98.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Jeannie Mai\u2019s daughter Monaco, born in 2022, speaks Vietnamese<\/a> with the sweetest raspy voice. In a 2023 appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show<\/em><\/a>, the proud mom explained, \u201cI\u2019m teaching her Vietnamese, so she speaks English and Vietnamese. I mean, she pretty much understands everything we say in Vietnamese, which is so cool because that\u2019s how I learned to speak. I have to speak it fully at home, and then when you go to school, you\u2019ll learn English like that [snaps].\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMonaco is going to experience all of the cultures that the melting pot that is San Jose has,\u201d the\u00a0Raid the Cage<\/em>\u00a0host added. \u201cI want Monaco to feel where I came from and to understand that my parents immigrated here, straight to the Bay from Vietnam, and there\u2019s so much life that came from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Ever since Serena Williams\u2019 daughter Adira, born in 2023, and Olympia, born in 2017, were born, the 23-time Grand Slam champion has been teaching them French. She\u2019s shared several videos<\/a> of these casual French lessons, like when she coached Adira to pick up the \u201cbleue\u201d (blue) toy, then the \u201cverte\u201d (green) toy while playing. She makes it look so easy!<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Cardi B has been teaching her daughter Blossom, born in 2024, Spanish. In a video obtained by Hola<\/a>, her daughter asks for \u201cagua\u201d (water), and the proud mom encourages her to say it again.\u00a0<\/p>\n In Aug. 2022, Cardi B shared a video<\/a> of her daughter Kulture, born in 2018, speaking Spanish while visiting relatives in the Dominican Republic. It\u2019s clear teaching her kids Spanishi is a priority!<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Jimmy Fallon and wife Nancy Juvonen have been introducing their daughters Winnie, born in 2013, and Frances, born in 2014, to different languages since they were born.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAs soon as they were born, we were reading to them,\u201d Fallon told E! News<\/a> in Oct. 2022, \u201cand when you get nerdy when you have your first baby you get so into reading every book and every article about how do we make our kids geniuses.’\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cI got all these different books in different languages.\u00a0I got\u00a0Green Eggs and Ham\u00a0in Italian, but the whole book is in Italian. I don\u2019t know how to speak Italian.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0Saturday Night Live\u00a0<\/em>alum even wrote a Spanish-English children\u2019s book, Con Pollo,\u00a0<\/em>with Jennifer Lopez, to encourage other parents to teach their kids a new language.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMy kids are learning Spanish in school now,\u201d he added. \u201cSo this is perfect for their age group.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n When Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s son Sebastian, born in 2014, was just 2, he was already bilingual. The Hamilton<\/em> creator, who shares Sebastian and son Francisco, born in 2018, with wife Vanessa Nadal, told PEOPLE<\/a> in Nov. 2016, \u201cIt\u2019s adorable to see him sense who he\u2019s talking to and translate. He\u2019ll be like, \u2018Leche?\u2019 No, Milk?\u2019 and that\u2019s kind of incredible. He\u2019s like a sponge and he\u2019s got a smattering of German, too. My mother-in-law is Austrian, so he\u2019s got one language up on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Eva Longoria revealed in a June 2023 appearance on\u00a0The Kelly Clarkson Show\u00a0<\/em>that her son Santiago, born in 2018, speaks better Spanish than she does.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t grow up speaking Spanish,\u201d the Desperate Housewives <\/em>alum said, per PEOPLE<\/a>. \u201cWe lived in Mexico City and I was just shooting in Spain. He\u2019s super fluent and corrects me all the time and he does it with, like, attitude.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s so disappointed in my Spanish,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Richard Gere lives in Spain with wife Alejandra Gere and their two sons Alexander, born in 2019, and James, born in 2020. He told Page Six<\/a> in April 2025, \u201cMy wife is so happy there. Her family is there, her culture is there, [our] youngest kids are growing up there, their Spanish is perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n George Clooney admitted in 2022<\/a> that he and his wife Amal made a \u201cterrible mistake\u201d by having twins Ella and Alexander learn a second language.<\/p>\n \u201cWe taught them Italian,\u201d George said on an appearance on CBS Mornings<\/em>. But we don\u2019t speak Italian. So, we\u2019ve armed them with a language that they can harm us with, and we don\u2019t really know what they\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Heidi Klum\u2019s kids Leni, born in 2004, Henry, born in 2005, Johan, born in 2006, and Lou, born in 2009 \u2014 who she shares with ex husband Seal \u2014 all speak German. Teaching them is something she feels strongly about. \u201cThey\u2019re bilingual. Completely,\u201d the model told PEOPLE<\/a> in April 2009. \u201cYou owe that to your children if you have the ability to speak another language.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Zoe Salda\u00f1a\u2019s three kids \u2014 twins Cy and Bowie, born in 2014, and Zen, born in 2016, who she shares with husband Marco Perego \u2014 are trilingual and confidently speak English, Italian, and Spanish.<\/p>\n \u201cThey understand all three languages, and they also choose who they speak the languages with,\u201d the actress told PEOPLE in 2017<\/a>. \u201cSo with their Italian grandparents they will speak in Italian, with their [Spanish-speaking] grandparents they speak in Spanish, and with Mama and Papa they will speak back in English \u2014 but they understand in any language we speak to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Brangelina may be no more, but Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt\u2019s<\/a> combined efforts to teach their children multiple languages are still going strong. \u201cNone of my kids want to be actors, thank God,\u201d Jolie said while hosting a BBC Radio 4\u2019s Women\u2019s Hour<\/a> June 2016 segment. \u201cThey\u2019re interested in being musicians. And they are all learning different languages.\u201d<\/p>\n Jolie revealed that their six children speak seven languages among them. \u201cAll the kids are learning different languages,\u201d she said. \u201cI asked them what languages they wanted to learn, and Shi is learning Khmai, which is the Cambodian language, Pax is focusing on Vietnamese, Mad has taken to German and Russian, Z is speaking French, Vivienne really wanted to learn Arabic, and Knox is learning sign language.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Chris Hemsworth<\/a> is supportive of his wife, Spanish actress and model Elsa Pataky, teaching their children to be fluent in Spanish. The couple share daughter India, born in 2012, and twin sons Tristan and Sasha, born in 2014. \u201cYeah, they\u2019re fluent in Spanish,\u201d Hemsworth said during an April 2018 Ellen<\/em><\/a> interview. While the actor admits he can only speak \u201cone sentence\u201d of his wife\u2019s native language, he says his children fluent. \u201cWhen I hear the Spanish directed at me, it\u2019s usually unfortunate, controversial, aggressive situations,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I\u2019m just thinking, \u2018What is she saying right now?\u2019 and, \u2018What\u2019s my comeback to this?\u2019 When we\u2019re fighting, basically, which is never! If she gets angry enough, she\u2019ll drop the English fa\u00e7ade.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Eva Mendes and husband Ryan Gosling have gotten candid<\/a> about the challenges that come with raising their daughters, Amada and Esmeralda, bilingual. \u201cI\u2019m Cuban\u2026 so yeah, we\u2019re trying to teach the kids Spanish, and it\u2019s harder than I thought,\u201d Mendes said in a May 2019 interview on The Talk.<\/em><\/a> \u201cBecause I speak Spanglish and that\u2019s what they\u2019re picking up. So it\u2019s adorable, but it\u2019s technically not a language. It\u2019s Spanglish.\u201d<\/p>\n Mendes has also opened up about her efforts to immerse her children in Cuban culture. \u201cWe\u2019re constantly playing Cuban music,\u201d Mendes said in an August 2016 Vanity Fair<\/a> interview. \u201cI speak to them in Spanish, and my mom speaks to Esmeralda in Spanish. Well, now she speaks to both of them in Spanish. Any time I have an opportunity to introduce her or them\u2026 to my culture, whether it\u2019s through music, or through food, I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Matthew McConaughey\u2019s wife, Camila Alves,<\/a> is from Brazil, so naturally the famous couple are raising their children to speak her native language, Portuguese. \u201cThe kids are taking Portuguese classes for the last week,\u201d right before their family headed to Brazil to visit Alves\u2019 relatives, McConaughey said in a December 2016 interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThey already know a lot of Portuguese, but they\u2019re taking Portuguese classes five hours a day for the last week in preperation for going on this trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Ricky Martin<\/a> is very open about life with soon-to-be ex-husband Jwan Yosef and their four children: twins Valentino and Matteo (b. 2013), Lucia (b. 2018), and Renn (b. 2019). The singer credits them for helping him to come out, and one reason he says he talks about them so often is to help \u201cnormalize\u201d families like his<\/a>. One particularly unique aspect of life in their household? Multiple languages are spoken.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a September 2013 Ellen<\/em> interview<\/a>, Martin said he and Yosef speak Spanish and English in the house. And Valentino and Matto go to a French school, meaning the older boys can speak Spanish, English and French. \u201cThat\u2019s the beautiful thing about New York,\u201d Martin said of the city where the family has a home. \u201cIt\u2019s such a diverse city, culturally speaking, and you have the opportunity to bring your kids to this school that goes by the French system,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI want them to be exposed more.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Shakira<\/a> and her ex Gerard Piqu\u00e9, share children Milan, born in 2013, and Sasha, born in 2015. The Colombian singer launched a bilingual parenting app called Grow,<\/a> in partnership with Fisher-Price, back in 2016. While promoting the app, Shakira offered some insight into her own experience raising bilingual children.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt helps if they are able to associate a person with a language at this early stage, to minimize language confusion,\u201d Shakrai told Popsugar<\/a> in March 2016. \u201cTheir father, for example, always speaks to them in Catalan. I try to speak to them in mostly English, but if I switch, I try to not mix two languages in one sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Rosamund Pike<\/a> and husband Robie Uniake share sons Solo, born in 2012, and Atom, born in 2014. In a February 2021 interview on The Graham Norton Show,<\/em><\/a> Pike revealed that their children speak Mandarin \u2014 and that it was mainly her husband\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve got my kids homeschooling me,\u201d Pike said. \u201cBecause my kids speak Mandarin, and I don\u2019t. They grew up bilingual, really, because my partner thought he was going to have more kids, because he had had four already, and he thought it might be exciting for him to talk to them in a language that we don\u2019t already know,\u201d Pike said. \u201cSo he taught himself Chinese from the ground-up.\u201d<\/p>\n During the Covid-19 pandemic, she finally learned the language herself. \u201cHe\u2019s basically talking to them in a language I don\u2019t understand so I thought maybe lockdown was a good opportunity for me to catch up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n Actress Salma Hayek and her husband, Fran\u00e7ois-Henri Pinault, share an only child, Valentina, born in 2007. At just 2 years old, the famous couple\u2019s daughter was already trilingual. \u201cShe speaks three languages,\u201d Hayek told People Moms & Babies<\/em><\/a> in April 2010. \u201cShe\u2019s speaking fluently\u2026English, Spanish, and French,\u201d Pinault added. \u201cShe can have a conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n At the time, Hayek was also learning multiple languages alongside her tot. \u200b\u200b\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how fast it comes,\u201d Pinault continued. \u201cShe\u2019s teaching French to her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\nOlivia Munn<\/h2>\n
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