I love on Burn Notice when Jeffrey Donovan speaks Russian, since he actually learned the language.

Apparently Perabo is a quick study with accents: [link]

Your character is supposed to be a master at languages. How challenging has it been to learn these different languages

I’m pretty good with picking up languages because I’m good at accents. But some languages I have no experience with, like in the pilot we’re in Sri Lanka and so we’re speaking Sinhalese. That has a sound that I’m not used to at all. We have a dialect coach who works with us, and because we’re in Toronto – it’s one of my favorite little facts about Toronto – it’s the most diverse city in North America. So far, we’ve been able to find a native speaker of every language we’ve done. We do recordings of native speakers that we can then break down and use … so it doesn’t sound like a language teaching tape, you know, it can get too perfect and then it sounds fake.

I've lived in Toronto for 3 years and still visit often, but she's right -- you can easily find anyone who speaks a given language in that city. I used to work near the Kensington Market, and it was like the world bazaar every day. Man, I miss living there.

The most diverse city in North America though? That's probably New York though, I'd think.

Toronto might win because there are fewer native Torontans, i.e. since non natives make up 75% of the population, it's more diverse than New York, since non natives make up only 60% of the population, even if the number NY's 60% is greater than the number Toronto's 75%.

Or I could be (am most likely) completely full of shit. and of course, the numbers are completely made up.

OH! Aldis Hodge speaking French! megan walker would have to approve the accent officially, but it sounded damn good to me. As in, so hot. Mrph.

Accent was good, although the cadence and intonation were a bit off. And, basically, as he spoke faster, it sounded more off. But that first sentence was very nice. Definite potential.

That was so sweet. Aw!

Although I feel I must point out that "when you speak English and French, German's not that hard" is utter bullshit.

It seems like it would be, Megan. Although I speak Spanish so it seems like I wouldn't have trouble with French or Italian. Comparatively. German has totally different rules.

"when you speak English and French, German's not that hard"

I know, WTF? It's hardly Spanish and Italian.

The romance languages completely crossover. So, as an editor, I could often help my Spanish colleague with questions and she could help with Italian and French, but my boss, who knows French, Italian, some Spanish and Russian (and even some German), still has problems with our German books.

Yeah, it's not like it was Dutch -- is it even Dutch I'm thinking of? That often looks like weirdly-spelled English?