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SeattleVet

(5,932 posts)
3. He's not bilingual...that would be way too easy.
Sun Jul 28, 2024, 12:57 AM
Jul 2024

Buttigieg speaks eight languages – “some better than others,” he said at a CNN town hall – including Norwegian, Maltese, Arabic, Spanish and Dari.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/pete-buttigieg-arabic-spanish-farsi/index.html

Deuxcents

(27,715 posts)
8. Yes, that's the word. Did not know that or that Pete speaks several languages. Learn something new here all the time
Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:17 AM
Jul 2024

Thank you

Mira

(22,694 posts)
14. Being only bi-lingual
Sun Jul 28, 2024, 02:21 AM
Jul 2024

I'm impressed with his grasp, and I know he has good knowledge of other languages. It boomerangs when you are proficient in more than one. By the way, Melanoma Trump has about two or three sentences memorized in the languages she supposedly speaks.
Her English is poor, as well.

Skittles

(172,897 posts)
15. oh wow
Sun Jul 28, 2024, 02:27 AM
Jul 2024

I've been taking Spanish lessons on Duolingo and I pretty much followed what he said

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