George Clooney says his three-year-old twins are 'fluent' in Italian: 'We did a really dumb thing'

George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney are struggling to understand their three-year-old twins!

In a recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the 59-year-old actor revealed that his children, Alexander and Ella, are bilingual.

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"We did a really dumb thing, which is, they speak fluent Italian," Clooney said of his children on December 2. "I mean fluent Italian at three. But I don't speak Italian, my wife doesn't speak Italian, so we've armed them with a language.

"I'll say, 'Go back in and clean your room,' and they'll be like, 'Eh, papa stranzo.' I'm from Kentucky, English is a second language to me."

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Clooney and his wife welcomed their son and daughter in June 2017 after three years of marriage.

The actor recently revealed children weren't always in the couple's plans.

"We never talked about having kids, and then one day we just said, 'What do you think?'" he told host Tracy Smith on CBS Sunday Morning. "We go to the doctor and you do the ultrasound. They're like, 'You got a baby boy!' and I was like, 'Baby boy, fantastic!' And they go, 'And you got another one there.'"