Although he insists that he doesn’t speak any language other than English, Anderson Cooper studied German from middle school through high school and during his freshman year of college. However, “I didn’t really practice it after my first year of college,” Cooper explained on his news program “Full Circle” in 2021. “And I haven’t had much opportunity to use it. So I’m embarrassed about that.”
Aside from German, Cooper also briefly studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi in Vietnam. “I studied [it] for six months, and I was short of conversational a little bit,” he said. “I mean, I can kind of get along and order food on the street. But again I didn’t practice it after I left and I wouldn’t speak Vietnamese at all.” That, and Swahili — one of East Africa’s most common languages — for about a year in college, although he has since forgotten it as well. “So I don’t really think I do speak languages. It’s one of the greatest failings of my life. I wish I did,” he said.
But, per Vanity Fair, there is one other language that Cooper can speak, and surprisingly fluently: Spanish. The CNN anchor apparently practiced Español in his interview with Mexican drug lord Sandra Ávila Beltrán for “The War Next Door” segment of his news program “60 Minutes” in 2009. As noted by the publication, Cooper flawlessly switched to Spanish once he established that Beltran wasn’t fluent in English. “It was as impressive as it is interesting,” wrote Vanity Fair’s Claire Howorth.
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