5 Villain Actors That Speak LOTS of Languages

@manwiththeredface7821 says:

What? No Christoph Waltz?

@kristinrburkett says:

I know Tom studded Classics as I also studied Classics and Latin and Attic Greek are a must and you get a bit of a difficult kick over whichever you get first. Greek does not have Ablative case and Latin does – Latin assigns bits and bobs of grammatical functions from the Greek Genitive and Accusative cases to Ablative whiiile also still having genitive and accusative keep other functions – so the Greek Genitive absolute becomes Ablative absolute in Latin – among other things. Whichever you learn first will make the other more difficult due to the absence or presence of the ablative creating grammatical duties of cases inconsistent from one to the other. I got Greek first.. Also modern Greek vs Ancient feels a bit like old English vs modern only with fewer extinct letters like the thorn. Though modern Greek can also have that feel when you look at the extinct letters from Byzantine Greek. Classics puts you through a linguistic ringer and you still have to have a bit of Spanish, French, Italian, and German to have access to the scholarship of Classical scholars who don’t have their works put to English as anyone that deeply into Classics likely already knows the peripheral languages of most intense secondary scholarship. United States founders were also Classists who easily navigated Greek, Latin, and many languages on the continent. My own study of Classics has infected me with a voracious appetite for linguistic acquisition. I prefer grammatical mechanics first – see the moving parts and gears before the overlay of interactive relevant vocabulary. I almost certainly prefer this because of looking at declension and case charts for Greek and Latin … and the absolute unhinged mayhem of ancient greek participles – if you don’t collect those like your a-team Pokémon, you will be set adrift to perish in the Aegean with out even decent tools for a dramatic, woeful death speech. Anyway Tom amuses me for Classics, participating in a favourite past time of opening doors like a velociraptor, and my 15 year old cat who predates the Thor movies is named Loki – I got him the year before Thor came out and his previous name had beed Cicero when I adopted him. My Classics cat turned Nordic mythological deity right before those movies still amuses me. He is a cute playful ginger-cat with puss in boots sparkly eyes. My other cat Ronin always turns up when I have my nose in Thucydides – the speeches of which are the most difficult in antiquity because he treats grammar like a trick-shot gymnastics show and still has the most amusing arrogance “I wasn’t actually there to hear Peracles speak but this is what he could of said *insert difficult and eloquent speech* – “my recounting is a possession for all time” … the he goes to like in self-imposed exile in Sparta admiring Brasidas for taking down his rival Athenian general while also dying. The hero cults for Brasidas and the implied political affinity are fascinating.