Stop saying Melania speaks five languages

[Bluesaph]

[EffieBlack]

1. "We know she's fluent in Michelle Obama"

I speak enough of several languages to get by and it really impresses the hell out of my friends who don’t speak those langauges and don’t know that I’m really just talking baby talk - but I would never claim to be “fluent in four languages.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Colbert said this last night also, I doubt it very much

[MineralMan]

3. There is a huge difference between "speaks" and "is fluent."

If you're conversationally competent in some language, you can say you speak that language.

To say you are fluent in a language, you have to be able to express yourself in that language clearly and without significant errors of grammar and vocabulary usage.

I speak several languages at different levels of competence. I am fluent only in English. I can be polite and hold everyday conversations in French, Spanish, Russian and English. I can be polite in several others. But, I can think, write, and converse freely only in my native language, which is English.

Few people are truly fluent in more than a couple of languages. True fluency is very difficult to attain in a language not learned from birth.

[CatMor]

4. She speaks 5 languages....

like she's a college graduate in architecture, no and no.

[Dave Starsky]

10. Architecture? Are you shitting me?

We're supposed to believe she has a degree in architecture, of all things?

I just Googled it. You aren't shitting me.

Dios mio.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. Her former webpage DID say she graduated with

A degree in architecture. Remembering that impressed me at the time. But the site disappeared and people think trump set that up to make his wife look smarter.

[Greybnk48]

21. She does not have a degree in anything.

I saw the old webpage too. I think they got rid of that lie. Too easy to expose.

[Dave Starsky]

23. I really doubt that she has more than a ninth-grade education.

Or whatever the Slovenian equivalent is.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Yes poof gone. Lie hiding.

[redstatebluegirl]

27. I advised ARCH majors for 10 years, no way this bimbo could handle that curriculum.

[Dave Starsky]

29. I can't even believe they thought that was even slightly credible.

Apparently some idiot with the Trump campaign thought that architecture is just the study of pretty buildings.

[redstatebluegirl]

33. I could believe interior design.

[Delphinus]

5. Thank you!

And welcome to DU!

[Bluesaph]

12. Thank you!

[cyclonefence]

6. Hell, I'm fluent in five languages

if you limit the vocabulary to menus. Chicken Kung Pao, spaghetti marinara, creme brulee, smorgasbord, and tapas. There you go.

[Demovictory9]

7. Lol..fake italian

[mitch96]

8. I always thought that to be fluent in a language

besides the other obvious things is to be able to understand and create a subtle joke or word play...
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[mitch96]

9. the way she speaks english...

Would be a perfect casting for Dracula's wife. I hear her speak and I think Vlad the Impaler!
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[smirkymonkey]

11. More like she butchers five languages.

She has been in this country over 20 years and can still barely speak the language. It's not like she hasn't had every opportunity to take advantage of various resources to improve her skills. Like her idiot husband, she is lazy and it shows. She does nothing but shop and pamper herself. She's a completely useless waste of space.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Exactly. Take Arianna Huffington as an example. Sure you can tell

she wasn't raised here by her accent. But she knows how the fuck to use articles in sentences and I'm pretty sure she knows the word is resiliency and not "re-silence". It's not her accent that people should give a shit about. It's the fact that with all the resources she's benefited from. She just can't seem to find the time to learn the most basic grammar.

[smirkymonkey]

18. The problem with Melania is that she has nothing but time. A huge amount of

free time and money and she does absolutely nothing to improve herself. She is just as intellectually lazy and incurious as her husband. Their only cares in life are about looking and acting rich. They are both repulsive.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. I was being sarcastic when I said "she couldn't find the time". nt

[Rorey]

28. She sure does butcher English

The reason she hasn't learned to speak English any better than she has is likely because she spends most of her time with her Slovenian family.

I HATE that she's the FLOTUS. I have absolutely no respect for her, and I have absolutely no sympathy for her.

And I don't consider her attractive either because of the attitude she conveys with her expressions.

[TeamPooka]

14. Speaking 5 languages is something many From EU

Can do

[smirkymonkey]

19. But she can't. She can speak a few phrases that she learned from a

tourist conversation book and not even that well. That is hardly what I would call being fluent. She has been in the US for over twenty years and can barely speak English. I think her skills as a polyglot are highly over-rated.

[TeamPooka]

20. I said speak not fluent. Many in Europe can do basic communications in many languages. It's a

proximity thing.
the nations in Europe are small and close to each other so if you learn the basics at a young age you have a chance to use that language skill the rest of your life and keep up the skill, unlike Americans who's multilingualism potential is restricted by the lack of opportunity to use the skills daily/weekly.

[struggle4progress]

15. She parlez-vous Espaniola molten bennie!

[lunatica]

25. There's a name in Spanish for that

Pocho. It means mixing the words in all the languages you know, so that only another person who knows those languages understands what you said. It can be a source of much humor when done for fun.

[fierywoman]

39. Never knew pocho! I was walking behind the pianist Martha Argerich backstage a long time ago

(my orch had just played the Schumann concerto with her) and she was speaking pocho with someone -- it was hysterical! Pocho: I love it!

[lunatica]

41. The description of such activity is called

pochismo in Spanish. There are probably descriptive words in other languages for this but I don’t know the.

[kskiska]

16. Judging from one of her encounters with schoolchildren

I found that I can speak French as well as she. All she did say hello and ask their names. I can do that.

[Tipperary]

26. Never believed that.

Ever.

[lunamagica]

30. She has so much difficulty expressing herself in English that it makes me thhink she

doesn't practices it too often, which is strange considering she married an American man.

I wonders if she surrounds herself with Slovenian servants assistants and nannies. I've even heard that Barron speaks with a slovenian accent

[lunasun]

37. Yes I read he was on Larry King before he started school and had an accent but he is

in school,and may have lost it. And there is nothing wrong with a family speaking another language at home or amongst themselves .
What is wrong is how she stands with trump to demonize others who speak Spanish because they are brown arousing violence among thier own hateful voters to demand speak English only of other citizens ,
or how she questioned Obama's birth and faith on national TV
If she was kind and honest her broken English would not be ridiculed as much imo but she comes off a lyinahole

[lunamagica]

40. Not only that, there is also her talk about coming legally to the US and working legally

but she has never said how she obtained her visa, or if she had a work permit.

But then again, I think she's nothing but a puppet with a script.

[TygrBright]

31. Well, she at least has to speak Ig-pay Atin-Lay to communicate with [Redacted] n/t

[oasis]

32. By those standards, I'm fluent in at least 11 languages.

Ciao baby Be best y'all.

[kskiska]

34. She spends a lot of time with her parents, who speak Slovakian

and even her son is fluent in Slovakian.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

38. Slovene. nt

[onecaliberal]

35. There is NO way she speaks 5 languages let alone to proficiency.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

36. I'm fluent in English and gibberish.

So that's two languages.

[oasis]

42. "Be best y'all, fo' shizzel"

Make that ....six languages

[Drahthaardogs]

43. Her Italian sucks.

Just saying