Language expert says Melania Trump's claim she speaks 6 languages is not true

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54. To be fair, "Zbig" was real life

I met him once, and yes, his English was excellent, as it well should have been. But I am thinking more of someone like Viktor Sukhodrev to have achieved total fluency. Or, closer to home, my two daughters, whom we deliberately raised to be bi-lingual.My wife and I made a point of only speaking our own native languages to them from day one, and it worked. When they speak German, Germans hear only a fellow German. When they speak English, Americans hear only another American.

On the other hand, maybe you are right, and I am using standards that are too stringent. I figure I am disqualified from fluency in Dutch when people in Holland tell me they can still tell I'm originally from South Africa and haven't completely lost my Afrikaans accent (I have never even been to South Africa), along with the fact that I never learned to write it.