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(3,390 posts)Deuxcents
(27,715 posts)SeattleVet
(5,932 posts)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
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)rubbersole
(11,277 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)Deuxcents
(27,715 posts)Thank you
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)SunSeeker
(58,374 posts)calimary
(90,830 posts)FlyingPiggy
(3,748 posts)PeaceWave
(3,689 posts)speak easy
(12,598 posts)first
Mira
(22,694 posts)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)I've been taking Spanish lessons on Duolingo and I pretty much followed what he said
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