Arnold Schwarzenegger opens up on hiring accent removal coach: ‘I should have got my money back’

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00:00 Well, you know, I did not really have that talent.

00:06 So even though I had an English coach,

00:09 and an acting coach, and a speech coach,

00:13 and an accent removal coach...

00:16 Wow.

00:17 ...who has passed away since then,

00:20 but I mean, I should have otherwise gotten my money back.

00:23 But the bottom line is, I worked on it.

00:27 I remember that when he said,

00:30 "You always say 'three'.

00:32 "It's not 'three', it's 'three' with 'th'."

00:36 So he had me say, "Three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three and one third."

00:41 -With the 'th' and not with the 's'. -Very good.

00:44 Yeah, but I mean, after 5,000 years, right?

00:48 After doing thousands of reps on it.

00:51 I remember we'd get confused with the 'f's and the 'v' and the 'w'.

00:56 We would say, "This is a nice vine."

00:59 But it's actually wine, right?

01:01 So the guy had me say, "A fine wine grows on a vine."

01:07 So now I ran around with that.

01:11 Then, for instance, he said to me,

01:13 "Arnold, you have to also learn how to say the vibrating 'z'.

01:17 "We don't have that in German."

01:18 So he said, "The 'zink' is made out of 'zink'."

01:23 So I was saying things like that over and over again.

01:26 -Useful phrases. -Yeah, phrases.

01:29 It was very helpful, but it didn't get rid of my accent.