yes

He asked about her having no accent, and she talked about learning English by watching American TV. Re-watch.

​@rojoeditor He said "I grew up in this country and I never had to learn another language." He might be impressed by the fact that she learned different languages in her country. However, he later asked "how did you learn English so well?" Not "how did you learn the American accent?" Conan went to Harvard so I'm sure he knows that English is spoken in South Africa but....

@@trinidadinternational he asked/commented about both the language and the accent, and her answer encompassed both.

@rojoeditor exactly! I'm sure he wouldn't have asked an English guy with an American accent how he learned English. It would have been focused on the accent. She was being polite.

Yes, that's what she said. The interviewer kind of implied that she learned English from zero but we all knew what she actually did was adopt the American accent

​@@user-xh2so8ef3o if I were fluent in English, no matter what accent, I think I wouldn't try to get another accent especially American. I think that the American accent is a second class accent while the British accent is a high class accent. I'm Russian and I've been learning English from zero level and still far from caring about accents. I just want to speak well enough.

Everyone who is white, be specific, there's more to South africa than white folks

I will never understand how people can marry with someone whose language they don’t speak! How do they even get to have deep conversations before getting married? So strange!!!

Maybe her husband knows spanish

​@@Monninaq1what's wrong with that. Love is blind. Action is more touching than language. Language is no barrier for two people make a relationship.

@@Monninaq1 lol my dad was fluent in Spanish. He learned it by working in the border patrol.

​@Abdi_sulaiman Bro, it's hard to understand someone even when you know their language. Imagine if you don't.

Even hotter!

Absofuckinlutely!

@@kaypee1972 There is no competition with youth. Those puffy cheecks/lips and firm body.

her appearance, yes!.. but her soul? do you think?

@@eheheheheheheheh .. Yeah she's a good person.

My cousin speaks cartoon Japanese, it's a very special dialect, I'm sure you know of it. I can always tell even though I don't speak any Japanese....

i lived in Okinawa only for a couple years and liked the nightime Samuri soaps didnt understand many times we make our own script

I only know a few Japanese words but a few year back I was watching a Japanese movie and understood everything when I realised I wasn't reading the subtitles and understood everything I lost it and had to read the subtitles the brain is an amazing thing that we Know little about

That's interesting William, did you use subtitles or just tried to work out what they were saying?

Wow! That's very impressive, may I ask you how did you recall the new vocabulary that you learned?

@@Rheasreality By using, I guess. -speaking, writing, listening, etc like the actress said in the video.

Hello. Sorry, I didn't understand your term. What does "language acquisition" mean? What then is meant by study?

Why would you call it Chinese then? It's Mandarin. Fishy.

She is still very attractive, but looks nothing like this, from 1998. Without a description, I wouldn't have guessed it was her.

she aged....and she aged beautifully....

The time before she patented her bad ass character😊

He was being a bit too ambitious here frankly, awkward pokes at sexual references

I would not praise him for this interview though. He smoothly got Charlize talking about several insteresting subjects, she always got me really interested what she's have to say, and then Conan always cut her before she said half of what she aimed to on that subject - instead of letting her talk or following up. So he pissed me off here multiple times.

You don't lose an accent from watching TV... 🤦‍♂

I have a Norwegian friend (born, raised, still lives there) who’s 35 and has an almost perfect American accent from watching Seinfeld 😂

Often it will slip when they lose their temper. Must be a constant struggle for a long time.

her fluid transition from accent to accent is as magical as her divine and ageless beauty.

She chose to learn it so she could act in the US. I remember her saying it would be harder to switch between accents than to just have it be her new accent.

i believe the focus was on losing the South African 'accent'.

@@aldosigmann419 He kept on saying "learning english", so it's reasonable to assume that he doesn't think people speak English in South Africa, when English is arguably the most spoken language in South Africa. English is the most dominant language in South African government and south african media.

Actually, English is the native language of many people in South Africa. Not all learn it in school, but I assume most know English there just like their native tongue.

As far as mother tongue is concerned English only rank around 5th or 6th in South Africa. Most South African's do however speak English as part of daily communication with others who do not share our specific mother tongue as we have 12 official languages

@@francoisdreyer thanks for the info

Her and Jessica Alba! Lucky ladies

Shes like a hybrid of jenna elfman and elisha cuthbert. Tinge of tea leoni too

Her, Jessica Alba and Catherine Zeta Jones!

@@calico27 CZJ and Salma Hayek and Halle Berry, for me.

Make sure you're not operating heavy machinery while watching this clip.

​@@jerrynkathy Facts 😂

Yeah it was hard for someone born on foreign Armenian soil

@@gilbertodepiento8521 she floated here in a basket

@@christoph9510 and her brother is made out of clay

See the clip. And you will get the answer😅

She didn’t learn English from TV, she learned American English accent from TV. That’s quite different.

She must have crazy amounts of plastic surgery and botox treatment to basically not age, and her face also looks very different now... :/

South Africa

She became popular when she played Aileen Wournos till then she was relatively unknown

Her first role in an American movie was in "Two Days in the Valley" from 1996.

I thought that was gonna be the joke when I clicked it.. but no she didnt call him out

She spoke Afrikaans

@ariellaryner7740 Afrikaans was her first language, but she would have known English from a young age. She's talking about losing her strong Afrikaans accent. There's an interview of her speaking with it when she was a model. I'm South African (and I'm guessing other people saying this are as well). She grew up in an Afrikaans area, but the nearby big city (Johannesburg) would have had an overwhelming majority of first-language English speakers at the time.

I was really surprised when I first met two people from South Africa who spoke English with a weird accent so I’ve learned that some of them are born and raised speaking Afrikaans and English was their second language.

He’s a comedian who plays dumb ~90% of the time and he makes fun of nerdy celebrities and coworkers like Schlansky and Blaeyart. He studied history so I’m sure he’s passionate about these topics just trying to be unpretentious. He’s clearly referring to the developing of an American accent and avoiding certain things that make up local dialects or creoles in a way because if you come from a country like South Africa, there are a lot of slang or informal loan words integrated into English from older forms of the language, and Dutch, French and native African language influence. Its present everywhere to a less significant extent - East Asian countries and the Indian subcontinent have their own small differences when they speak English - for example I’m from Sri Lanka (former British colony) and we call flip-flops and certain sandals “slippers” locally. Obviously these nuances and distinctions would make the lighthearted talk show dull for a studio audience, hence the simplifications.

We will never know because Conan interrupts too much and cut off her story.

It was probably just a mistake. No biggie.

@@BKNY84 But the title of this clip is "How Charlize Theron Learned English", so if the people running this channel know it is a mistake then they must think it's a funny enough mistake to justify repeating as a misleading title. Perhaps someone thinks it's a joke?

@@Cimreau Maybe you could have looked it up if it was so important to you. Per Wikipedia: "Although Theron is fluent in English, her first language is Afrikaans." Can we move on now? Lol

Have you seen the Robin Williams movie "One Hour Photo"? I'm not sure if you should, but...

@@badad0166 I have not see that film...I'm guessing a killer person has a wall of photos of people he wants to kill?

Is Conan one of the 72?

It's no small feat, she did great.

jesus there was another person next to her

Believe she's received much flack back in her native country for switching to the American accent.

He hasn't.

Ikr

Pretty obvious she watched mostly, if not only, American shows

@@cece6652 this doesn’t answer the question at all lol

Clearly she learned only the accent from watching TV and was speaking English before. English is one of the many official languages in ZA and the primary spoken language there.

Okay well I know she speaks Afrikaans, first of all. And second, the title says “learned English, not learned an American accent”. Get why I asked?

She learned the American accent, not how to speak English. In South Africa we all have to learn English and Afrikaans. She is the same age as me so even though Afrikaans is her mother tongue she definitely learned to speak English at school. My mother tongue is English but I had Afrikaans as my second language that I had to learn.

Mila Kunis is another

@@thatlisamarie3525 No she came to the US as a child.

I don't think English is her second language. English is the first language of about 10% of South Africans, and probably much more than that for white South Africans.

No, her native language is Afrikaans, she's said so.

I couldn't disagree more. If you can't understand an English person using "received pronunciation" then you aren't going to understand any other flavour of english. Unaccented english, in as much as there is such a thing, is as neutral as it is possible to get. An American accent is not neutral.

J'adore* (French = "I adore") / she had all her clothes on*.

I think you'd have to retrain your muscles to form sounds differently to the point where the muscle memory is ingrained

Dude I am Indian and I can speak in an American accent FLAWLESSLY 😂

English is not her native language; Afrikaans is her native language. And as an Afrikaner growing up in rural SA, chances are that the only English she would be speaking would be in English classes at school.

Man this level of Engish is impossible to acheive for someone whose native language isnt English. Arnold learned English later in life too, but never lost the accent despite speaking English very well.

Hugh Laurie (House) is English, Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) was Australian, Russel Crowe is Australian (born in New Zealand), Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is Irish. They can all make perfect American accents.