Alex Trebek Has Led a More Interesting Life Than All of Us

He's Fluent in More Than One Language

It's no secret that Trebek is a Canadian native, but you might not have known that the game show host was raised in a bilingual home. Trebek grew up speaking both English and French fluently; he was raised in Ontario by his Ukrainian father and French-Canadian mother.

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