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Rhiannon12866

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32. That's the thing, people in other countries do learn other languages from an early age

Thu Sep 21, 2017, 01:39 AM

Sep 2017

So chances are good that people you meet will know English. I went to the USSR in 1986 with my grandmother as part of a peace group and it seemed like everyone we met from the post WWII generation spoke English - even an 11-year-old girl who went on an amusement park ride with me (my grandmother's group was mostly senior citizens ). We went to an opera and during the intermission I chatted with a girl about my age who was sitting next to me. She obviously spoke Russian, said she was fluent in French and Italian, but kept apologizing because she "didn't finish" her English. I relied on my HS French, but it was tough!

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Is Melania Trump really fluent in five languages? [View all] gyroscope Sep 2017 OP

Does lying count as a language? guillaumeb Sep 2017 #1

She has learned from the master himself gyroscope Sep 2017 #2

Hilarious Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2017 #24

No wonder not fooled Sep 2017 #29

Too funny . . . and she thought nobody would notice, LOL. Er, you were saying what are morals? ATL Ebony Sep 2017 #38

The language of lying..... SergeStorms Sep 2017 #33

Trump himself certainly has a sizable "seat of deceit". guillaumeb Sep 2017 #39

He certainly does.... SergeStorms Sep 2017 #40

Almost big enough.... guillaumeb Sep 2017 #41

I don't believe it. Control-Z Sep 2017 #3

One of them Soxfan58 Sep 2017 #4

Keep in mind that in most of Europe they don't wait until high school PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #5

She didn't ever do the international runway shows, mostly "lad magazine" nudies and shitty bettyellen Sep 2017 #14

I've traveled to Paris for business. I got along fine without knowing French. rickford66 Sep 2017 #20

That's the thing, people in other countries do learn other languages from an early age Rhiannon12866 Sep 2017 #32

There's a video from when she was in Paris, at the children's school, fierywoman Sep 2017 #6

She apparently speaks multiple languages unc70 Sep 2017 #7

Got any links? gyroscope Sep 2017 #9

Not sure how good the links are unc70 Sep 2017 #19

She speaks passable English GeoWilliam750 Sep 2017 #27

Years ago I had a girlfriend who was from the then Yugoslavia. Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian.... George II Sep 2017 #16

Having grown up in Slovenia before the Berlin wall came down, it's likely she studied Russian fierywoman Sep 2017 #8

She can't speak those languages. madaboutharry Sep 2017 #10

Very doubtful she can speak French gyroscope Sep 2017 #11

Just tRump's kind of "lady"!! Scarsdale Sep 2017 #36

In the Netherlands Turbineguy Sep 2017 #12

Her tubby hubby BHDem53 Sep 2017 #13

NO ! BUT I got a semi from the frosted tips . stonecutter357 Sep 2017 #15

When she's with the donald, I understand she'll never "communicate" without a translator.... George II Sep 2017 #17

I can say... 3catwoman3 Sep 2017 #18

I'm sure she can tell you how much Mr.Bill Sep 2017 #21

Maybe she can say "Hi sailor" in 5 languages? left-of-center2012 Sep 2017 #22

Привет, моряк ! stonecutter357 Sep 2017 #23

Zdravo mornar left-of-center2012 Sep 2017 #26

Remember Trump had her lie on her website Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2017 #25

tRump lies Scarsdale Sep 2017 #37

everything about her is phony Skittles Sep 2017 #28

Yeah, if she has practiced someone elses speech. Doreen Sep 2017 #30

I find it likely she also took Russian in school and possibly English Warpy Sep 2017 #31

Does gibberish count as a language? LastLiberal in PalmSprings Sep 2017 #34

She may speak 5 languages but it is clear from the time she has been seen chelsea0011 Sep 2017 #35