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In reply to the discussion: Snap! Pope asks Melania "what do you give him to eat"? [View all]cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)I remain unconvinced that she speaks several languages "fluently," judging only by what I've heard of her English. I know, I know, Europeans typically are fluent in several languages--but I know Finns and Norwegians and Spanish and Dutch people and Russians and Ukrainians and folks from the Middle and Far East, many of whom have not lived in the US as long as Melania has, who are indeed fluent in English. It is my opinion, and only mine, that Melania is not fluent in English, and I am therefore suspicious of claims that she is fluent in any language other than her native tongue.
My feeling has nothing to do with politics; it has to do with my bullshitometer.
Jackie Kennedy was fluent in French. I know this because I saw her have substantial, involved conversations, in French, with Charles DeGaulle. If someone shows me Melania having a sustained conversation with the Pope in Italian, I will retract and apologize.