Does Lukaku speak French?

Antwerp-born striker Romelu Lukaku is famous for his fluency in six - Dutch, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Swahili - and team captain Vincent Kompany speaks five.

Which footballer speaks most languages?

1: Romelu Lukaku

Born in Antwerp in Belgium from Congolese parents he learned two languages from the get-go: French and the Swahili variant of Congolese.

What seven languages does Lukaku?

His box on the list looks very different to everyone else's, with the Belgian striker able to speak French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Flemish and Italian. And incredibly, the UEFA form does not include the Bantu language of Lingala, which Lukaku also speaks due to his Congolese roots.

Does De Bruyne speak French?

Aside from his mother tongue Dutch, De Bruyne also speaks French, English, and German. Since 2014 De Bruyne has been in a relationship with Michèle Lacroix.

How many languages does Lukaku?

As well as his native French and Flemish that he spoke growing up in Belgium, Lukaku can also speak English and Italian as a result of his time playing in Serie A and the Premier League. But the impressive Lukaku can also speak Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and German.

Is Lukaku a polyglot?

Needless to say, football fans are flabbergasted by the multi-lingual prowess of the Chelsea striker. The list reveals he can speak the following eight languages: French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Flemish and Italian, possibly making him the most multi-lingual footballer in the world.

Is Eden Hazard Flemish?

Eden Michael Hazard (born 7 January 1991) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Spanish club Real Madrid and captains the Belgium national team.

Is Eden Hazard Flemish or Walloon?

Manchester City's playmaker Kevin De Bruyne is a Dutch-speaker from Ghent in the Flemish region, while Chelsea attacker Eden Hazard is a French-speaker from the Walloon region.

Is Lukaku French?

Romelu Menama Lukaku Bolingoli (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈroːmeːlu luˈkaːku]; born 13 May 1993) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Chelsea and the Belgium national team.

Does Lukaku speak German?

Lukaku can also speak English, Spanish, Portuguese and German, despite never having played professional football in the latter three countries.

Can Lukaku speak Spanish?

According to ESPN, he grew up in Belgium speaking French at home and Flemish at school. He also communicated with his Congolese relatives in Lingala. Lukaku can also speak English, as well as Portuguese, Spanish, and a little German; despite never playing in the latter three countries.

Can Zlatan speak French?

Now, Zlatan is fluent in five languages (not counting Zlatanese), but French is not yet one of them. So when he reluctantly spoke, his PSG teammates Salvatore Sirigu and Marco Verratti and manager Laurent Blanc busted up laughing in the audience.

Can Zlatan speak Italian?

Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981–), Swedish footballer. Speaks Swedish, Bosnian, English, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Is De Bruyne Dutch?

De Bruyne is a Dutch surname meaning "the brown one". The name is variably spelled Debruyne or De Bruijne as well. More common forms are De Bruin, De Bruijn, and De Bruyn.

Do they speak Flemish in Belgium?

There is no such thing as the Flemish language or dialect, and there is no one overall dialect spoken in Belgium, or the Netherlands. Like German, Dutch is a dialect-continuum. Generic Dutch (Algemeen Nederlands) is the standard language in both the Netherlands and Flanders.

Does Messi understand French?

Neymar, Angel Di Maria and Keylor Navas are said to never use French, but they do understand it. New arrivals, such as Lionel Messi and Nuno Mendes, however, have no knowledge of French.