{"id":281,"date":"2022-02-11T03:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T03:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/declansoftware.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2022-12-07T22:39:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T22:39:25","slug":"how-did-bradley-cooper-learn-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/how-did-bradley-cooper-learn-french\/","title":{"rendered":"How did Bradley Cooper learn French?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following on from the popularity of our blog post on how<a href=\"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/bald-and-bankrupt-language-learning\/\"> Bald and Bankrupt<\/a> so successfully learned Russian, we are going to do a series of post on other (famous or otherwise) people have learned to speak a second language as adults. We kick off the series with the American actor and filmmaker <strong>Bradley Cooper<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Bradley-Cooper-who-learned-to-speak-fluent-French-1024x714.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-283\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bradley Cooper is an excellent example of an adult who decided to learn a language and by investing the time and effort became pretty close to fluent according to reports.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently he was motivated to learn French after watching the movie Chariots Of Fire. He said, \u201cThere\u2019s a scene where a guy was speaking French and I thought, \u2018Man, that sounds so cool.&#8217;\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While doing a&nbsp;Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Georgetown University, Bradley took extra courses in French language. He also spent six months as an exchange student in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France, living with a host family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bradley Cooper speaking French in an interview\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2U9TlvTh0GI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is video of him speaking French in an interview on French TV, answering fans&#8217; questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is clear that he isn&#8217;t exactly fluent &#8211; he does make lots of little mistakes and his accent, while very good, isn&#8217;t perfect &#8211; you can tell it&#8217;s an American speaking French. Indeed he once admitted that his grammar is <em>d\u00e9bile<\/em> (&#8216;feeble&#8217; or &#8216;weak&#8217;). But he is very good, especially his confidence, relaxed demeanour and his use of colloquial phrases.  He doesn&#8217;t take it too seriously and you can see he is having a great time being able to engage his audience in their native language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key to his success seems to be that while he does make mistakes, it doesn&#8217;t phase him &#8211; he just ploughs ahead. This is a key strategy to language learning &#8211; not being afraid of making mistakes in front of other people &#8211; especially native speakers. Speaking to native speaker should be seen as an opportunity to learn. Native speakers don&#8217;t think you are stupid or that you are making a fool of yourself if you don&#8217;t quite get things perfect. 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We kick off the series with the American actor and filmmaker Bradley Cooper.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/how-did-bradley-cooper-learn-french\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;How did Bradley Cooper learn French?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-learner-profiles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.declansoftware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}