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To: marshmallow

Pope Emeritus Benedict is such a scholar. In addition to his native German, he speaks English, French, Italian and Spanish. He also speaks Latin (of course), as well as reads Biblical Hebrew and Greek.

I liked it when George W. Bush, who’s pretty good hablaing the espanol, and Condi Rice, who is fluent in French and Russian, hob knobbed with world leaders, and often spoke directly with their counterparts, dispensing with translators.

I must also say that Barack Obama is pretty good with a foreign language himself, English.


7 posted on 06/28/2017 7:10:20 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever
I must also say that Barack Obama is pretty good with a foreign language himself, English.

He's also fluent in Indonesian. Besides that, even if you believe the "born in Kenya" version of Birtherism, Kenya was a British colony at the time, and the native language would have been English. No foreign language there.

DISCLAIMER: i still despise everything that Obama stood for, but have no wish to trash the man, and wish him a long, happy, and prosperous life...The democrats got too much mileage out of two dead Kennedy brothers.

14 posted on 06/28/2017 9:49:25 PM PDT by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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