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Listen to world leaders speak English! (Original Post)
Odoreida
Jun 2020
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tblue37
(68,340 posts)1. But not Trump. He is notable as a world leader who can hardly speak English at all. nt
Wounded Bear
(63,970 posts)2. Yeah, pretty bad when the Prez has English as a second language...
after gibberish.
elleng
(141,926 posts)3. Danke!!!
Kali
(56,696 posts)4. I have a couple of personal anecdotes with language
I have a German friend who met a Hungarian through school and became friends. they communicate in English as niether speaks the other's native language. The German also speaks a little French and Spanish, the Hungarian speaks Italian (and lives there).
when I was young, my family traveled around the north Pacific for a year. my Father had a suit made while we were in Taiwan. they did the transaction and communication in Spanish since the tailor didn't speak English and my Father didn't speak Chinese.
I love to go places and hear lots of languages, but I suck at them. I can get by in Northern Mexico where people tend to speak slower but my Spanish isn't really very good.
