Candids

"Like - did you know that she's fluent in three languages-Spanish, Portuguese and English? "

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I don't think she can speak fluent French..

maybe "bonjour" "salut" "merci"

have you any other pics from backstages?

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why yes i do! i have one of isabeli i haven't posted yet and probably a couple more of adriana. i think i have some ana b. pics too.. i'm not sure... as i find them i'll post them.

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okay thank you!

I don't think she can speak fluent French..

maybe "bonjour" "salut" "merci"

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she lives in paris now full-time, so i'll bet she's learning french if she doesn't already know it a little.

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You can live in Paris without speaking French

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You can live in Paris without speaking French 

You can but if you want to get around without too much trouble, you'd learn it.

yes but I used to live in Paris in the past (I'm born there)

my father is italian and my mother russian and when they came to Paris they didn't speak French and can manage with french people in English. They knew some words. There are so many nationalities, communities that you can "survive"

Last year I was in New York for 3 months and my English is a disaster that I used to speak Spanish

adriana doesn't speak spanish fluently, I saw her in a spanish tv program, and the only thing she says in spanish was " me gustan los chicos espa

i can imagine her saying that and i thought it was funny as hell.

yes, it was not a very long interview, it was during sao paulo fashion week, the reporter was spanish and ask her if she likes spain, she says that sentence (she was laughing, and said it very slowly, well she always does ), and says she likes madrid architecture (in english) and that was all

I don't think she can speak fluent French..

maybe "bonjour" "salut" "merci"

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she lives in paris now full-time, so i'll bet she's learning french if she doesn't already know it a little.

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You can live in Paris without speaking French

Well we are off topic

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Lovely pictures! she looks very sophisticated and sexy

Although Spanish and Portuguese are similiar when it comes to certain words, in reality they are very different. Some words may be used in both Spanish and Portuguese, but other than that, it's hard to understand the rest.

I'm Latin, and hearing Portuguese I was only able to understand a little of what they were saying.

oh... I was under the impression that people that spoke Spanish and Portuguese could make out, relatively well, what each other were speaking and that the languages weren't radically different.

actually it is really different

Portuguese is a hard language.

any language is hard if you are not willing to learn it....for example lets take spanish...both of my cousins took it, one of my cousins wasnt willing to learn so he didnt learn it, now his sister is taking spanish and is willing to learn it and she is learning it....that and some people have the ability to pick up on languages fast....so it all depends on the person and if they are willing to learn the language

it also depends on situations, say you are relocated to another country and you have no choice but to learn the language or if all your co workers speak a certain language then you have no choice to learn the language....my brother learned farsi and spanish that way....he speaks better farsi than my uncle and my uncle was born in Iran

oh... I was under the impression that people that spoke Spanish and Portuguese could make out, relatively well, what each other were speaking and that the languages weren't radically different.

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i sat thru a portuguese class once while i was shadowing my friend in college, and i didnt understand everything that was going on even tho i'd taken 5 years of spanish.

What are Adriana's REAL ethnicities?

I hear different things

but in an interview she said She was Indian, Swiss, and African.

And then someone told me she was part Japanese and also French..??

haha. I am confused.

i've usu read french, portuguese, native american, and caribbean (read: of african descent, coz wth is "caribbean"?) but i would trust what she said in an interview more than what websites say lol

Let's just say, she's an I n t e r n a t i o n a l woman.

What are Adriana's REAL ethnicities?

I hear different things

but in an interview she said She was Indian, Swiss, and African.

And then someone told me she was part Japanese and also French..??

haha. I am confused.

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indian?!