In the scene in which Bond and Melina are travelling in a horse drawn carriage Bond gives instructions to the driver in Italian (il stazione, per favori and vai, andante)
Are there any other instances in the films of Bond speaking foreign languages?
What are the films and what are the languages?
Did Bond ever have a whole conversation in a foreign tongue?
I am disappointed that there are no Bond scholars on these boards who have been able to respond!
shareHe speaks to the Egyptian guy in, I assume, Arabic in The Spy Who Loved Me.
shareSomeone has commented that in You Only Live Twice Bond bragged that he "took a first in Oriental languages at Cambridge" but in "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997) he did not know how to type on the computer when the keys were written in Chinese
Chinese has multiple phonetic systems (and thus multiple input systems). I can type pinyin (Romanized Chinese), and so can most other westerners who have learned Chinese, but there are also other input systems that I would have no idea how to use.
I think this is actually a plot hole because mainland Chinese people use pinyin too. It's people in Taiwan and perhaps some other places that use different phonetic and input systems like the one seen in TND.
In Tomorrow Never Dies we hear him speaking Danish while rolling around in bed with his Danish tutor.
"Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. Would you like a cookie son?"
Spoke Russian to Xenia Onatopp and recognized her accent in GoldenEye.
shareHe speaks Thai to Goodnight in The Man With the Golden Gun. Some brief words in German in Octopussy. I think Russian in The World is Not Enough. Plenty more examples too.
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