According to wiki, she speaks "English, French, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian and her native Slovene. I think we could stipulate that she is unlikely to have an accent in Slovene. But the quality of her speech in the other languages presumptively depends, first, on the age she learned them and secondly on the technique by which she was taught. Personally I have a nodding acquaintance with German, but I learned that smidgeon in High School and on my best day my pronunciation, say nothing of my vocabulary and grammar, would undoubtedly have made you laugh.On the age issue, John Adams thought that John Quincy Adams was a genius because he picked up Russian so much faster than his father. But of course, any Tom, Ivan, and Vladmir learns Russian flawlessly as children, by immersion.
In my defense as a monolingual American, the reality is that anyone whose first language isnt English has good reason to select English as his/her second language. My daughter picked Russian and Japanese; nowadays one might select Chinese.
In Melanias defense she was born in Czechoslovakia, which didnt break up until 1990 when she was 20. She most likely didnt have much chance to learn English before then, and also little opportunity for exposure to native English speakers before then. She came to America at age 26, and even then, her work visa was year-to-year until 2000. And her work certainly did not demand good English enunciation. So IMHO she was set up to learn good enough English. And then she met and married The Donald - and who was in a position to criticize her accent then??
. . . so what you see is what you get - no complaints there - but what you hear is also what you get.
She’s slovenian not Czech. Again, I’m well aware of what it takes to master a language, I wish her handlers wouldn’t push the she’s a polyglot angle, unless they’re saying it’s her passive use of all these languages that is fluent. She’s barely fluent in english, and I’ve never heard or seen a video of her speaking in another tongue. Slovenian and Serbian are a given as she’s from the former Yugoslav republic.
Like I’ve stated, I know many Europeans who have NEVER lived in the US who speak school english with better grammar and syntax and often no discernible accent.