Is Gackt bilingual??
 

I don't know much about Gackt, so when I saw "Moon Child", I was wondering if he spoke any other languages fluently other than Japanese. I believe he was speaking Taiwanese in "Moon Child". Anyway, he was sellin' it to me. I thought he spoke it very well. Does anyone know if he's bilingual, trilingual, or multilingual?

I don't think so, I just think that he likes to think he is...

He can speak Japanese, Mandarin (Chinese), English for sure. But I think there is one more language left, propably Korean. He is really educated. BTW he can play on several instruments and he manages several martial arts! He's genius.

I also saw somewhere that he knows French .. but I can't really believe it :laugh

she should learn to speak Cantonese :D heeheehee~

she?
I though it's gackt, lol
Anyway, he's really great. And funny.

opps, haha, i meant he~ hahah, he he he!! darn caramel popcorn :P

I think he's fluent in English, Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean. Well... I don't think he speaks Korean too well... He still had a heavy Japanese accent on it when he sings.

He can definitely get by conversationally in Mandarin but he always has an interpreter when he talks to Chinese press (so it's hard to pinpoint just how fluent he is). Although I hear he is fluent in English, one can hardly tell by some of his Engrish lyrics. Still, it's pretty impressive because I think he's self taught (?).

Gackt had said he can speak French, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and English.

I've seen many people bashing his English lyrics and his pronounciation. But compared to other artists, his Englihs is very good. Especially now. (It was pretty bad before, byt December Love Song I found to be completely understandable.)

Mandarin Chinese is what you hear him speak most often. If you have ever seen the clip where he speaks with Vivian Hsu, Vivian claims that he speaks very well. (And she should know as it is her native language.)

Korean he must be fairly adept in seeing how many songs he has released in the language. And even if he does have an accent, I'm sure his Korean fans appreciate it very much.

As for French... The only time I think I ever heard him speak it was in a very small phrase in a photo shoot clip(in Italy, I think.) But that was when I first started studying French and I couldn't make out what he said. (The accent was certainly there...)
So, to answer the main question: Yes, Gackt is multi-lingual. How proficient he is in each language is another story. Probably proficient enough to effectively communicate in each, though I'm sure he still retains a heavy accent.

i saw the clip of him speaking to Vivian, he has a pretty good pronounciation, still awkward.. i tink he's like 0.5 bilingual.. not completely... his english is pretty bad..it's like Boa's english. They claim they can speak it, but they can only partially understand it and the english speaking world can only 0.25% of the time understand theirs. Heard him say Black Stone.. and i thought he had said "bad stay".

I heard Gackt speaking French in some beer commercial with a mermaid?!

Gackt IS fluent in reading/writing English, but he can't speak very well. He does say something about ninja's in Moon Child and it cracked me up, cos I couldn't understand it.

Anyways .. he sounds really weird singing in Korean, but at least it's understandable to his fans.

Yeah that's right i don't remember if it was for a beer but he actually speak french in this CM but i'd like to say that it's very hard to understand what he says and still i'm french lol

Yeah he can speak a few langs (which have been mentioned by above entries), but indeed, he still carries a heavy japanese accent which may make it hard to understand.

As for chinese (since I'm a chinese), I gotta say he's pretty good at it. He wrote good (though a little weird and unusual as compared to the current chinese lyrics) lyrics in chinese version of juuni gatsu no love song. As far as I know, he mentioned before that he learns chinese from his chinese friends. All I can tell is that he really does enjoy learning new things esp languages wise-

If I remember correctly, I read from somewhere that Gackt gave up learning cantonese because it was too tough for him.

For his "bad" english.. when he's singing in english, it sounds bad, but when he speaks, it sounds good. I think its not much proper to sing in "perfec english". In our country its the same. When someone handle english very good, he's not singing that good too. Because when you're singing in your native language and suddenly in perfect english, it sounds really funny :D
So I think he wants to sing that way - that not so good way. It sounds better for Japaneses.

What do you think?

I wonder if japanese accent is similar to spanish accent when conversing in english? lol because both sound a lot a like. like the sounds of the syllables.

It depends on how you define 'can speak'. Do you mean getting the message across? Or getting the grammar right? Or speaking like a native? I highly doubt Gackt can do the latter two for any other language other than Japanese but otherwise I guess he can speak pretty much all those languages (Mandarin, English, French etc)

i'd heard Gackt-san spoke chinese to faye wong and vivian hsu, also he spoke in moon child...and it's not bad at all. even though i'm a beginner in mandarin, but i could still cleary make out what he's tryin' to say...

as for english...sometimes his english lyrics surprise me with it's grammar, but then it's true, that when you compare Gackt-san with other artists, he is alot better in this language. also when he speaks it, it's not bad...the ninji thing in moonchild was cool! yet i've found him soundin' quite weird when he was duetin' with ayu singin' silent night...

i know he can speak french and korean, but i haven't heard it before...shame ><"

Thanks everyone! Gackt just seems so much cooler to me now!! I agree, he is very funny. In all the interviews I've seen him in, he always makes me laugh. He's an interesting character, isn't he?! He's mysterious, comedic, attractive, masculine, tall, and athletic. Is there anything he can't do??

Yes. He said he can't have sex with other men XD
omg i love him

Ah, Gackt with Faye Wong? Do you still have this video? :luv2

hmm..i don't know
maybe he learned a little for this movie

i was impressed to hear the engLish accent he has in a video there is around called "gackt in madagascar" i still have to watch it whole, but it a nmust see, he speaks fluently in english and he tries to learn new words in other languages of that country...

btw: it's surprising that whenever there is a topic ogf gackt, other characteristinc of this wonderful man appear in scence, it seems there is ONE PACK :P

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Good to know that he actually IS a bit fluent in Mandarin....last night I watched Moon Child and I have to say, he did pull off the Mandarin pretty well in that movie. He sounded good with the tones and everything ^^

I don't blame him for giving up on Cantonese...it IS slightly more difficult to learn than Mandarin since Cantonese involves more tones. I think for me it'd be easier to learn Cantonese since the dialect I speak with my parents (Taishanese) is very similar to Cantonese. ^^;

Gackt's English sounded a bit garbled in Moon Child though o_O....I didn't quite catch that part of the movie when he was talking about ninja/kitchen.

Gackt can speak Korean pretty fluently from what I heard, and he is releasing a lot of Korean-esque stuff, and I would say he's pretty fluent. He has a Japanese accent when speaking Korean. His Mandarin is pretty good. Although it can sound a little awkward, the pronouciation are generally good and very understandable.

At this point, I would say Gackt is conversationally fluent in at least the following languages: English, Mandarin, Korean. This is just judging from various clips of him talking about linguistics and actual moments of him interacting with people who are fluent in those other languages. Pretty amazing considering how busy he is. He must be a fast learner.

That's true. He's super-talented and just totally awesome. :luv2 I love how he's like a little kid at random times.
But i don't think he dances very well ;) It's quite awful. Like this video. Absolutely hilarious.

as I know, he speaks Chinese and English. He even sings in Chinese *fluently* tat u know wat the words he is singing.

Japanese and Chinese definitely. But anybody who says he's fluent in English probably doesn't speak the language themselves. I mean, WTH is Papa Lapped a Pap Lopped? (If I typed the title wrongly, that's because it IS that confusing.)

i wish he knew English! ^^ that'd be hot

He does know English and speaks it very well. Its just that he sounds horrible when he sings in English. Like when he sang Silent Night with Ayu (I love that video!), Ayu sounded really good compared to him.

i found a couple of clips of him speaking english:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyyQR...ackt%20english
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU0P...ackt%20english

He's better in English than most other Japanese artistes I must say, but sometimes I just can't help laughing at him when he tries to speak English a little too much.

And that MasterCard commercial was cute. :D

YEAH! I remember that commercial!
In the pool/jacuzzi right? Then they lie down on the grass before he leaves!

I couldn't understand half of it though xD

This is my favorite clip og Gackt speaking English. =^.^= I'd say he's fairly proficient.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lpFw_DHE_CU

^ Wow, he sounds hott in that clip O_O And pretty fluent....other clips where I've heard him speak English it all sounds so engrish-y. ^^;

Gackt sounds hot in any language ^_^

GACKT is so yummy.....im just greatful that the title of this thread wasn't "is GACKT gay?"

^ There was an older thread asking that x_x; I'm surprised that that thread wasn't closed o_o;

I love his english..*the im tired clip XDD* i knew he spoke chinese and korean..would be cool if he knew french