EXCLUSIVE: 9 Latino Celebs Who Are Learning Spanish

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Selena Gomez, 19

Last Christmas, Selena Gomez told Latina.com she knew exactly what she wanted from Santa. "I really want to get Rosetta Stone because I really need to learn my language," said Gomez, who’s half-Mexican. The reason Gomez was so keen on learning the language was that she didn’t feel entirely confident speaking Spanish in interviews. “I practice [Spanish], but I can understand it better than I can speak it,” said Selena. “So in a lot of my interviews that I did recently, they would speak to me in Spanish and I would answer back in English. They were like, 'You pick it up so easily,' but I don’t want to say it in Spanish because I’d be embarrassed if I mess something up."

EXCLUSIVE: Selena Gomez: "I Really Need to Learn Spanish"