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How is it that Quebec-educated Kamala Harris could go to Paris and not be able to speak French?
Americanthinker.com ^ | 11/26/2021 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 11/26/2021 7:20:26 AM PST by rktman

After I wrote my Kamala Harris shopping-spree piece here, deriding Harris's rude refusal to speak French to the locals at a fancy cookware shop in Paris, AT editor Thomas Lifson pointed out something important:

Kamala Harris actually ought to be able to speak French.

Here's how she did:

Turns out she was educated during her four high school years in Montreal, Canada, where her mother worked as a cancer researcher during the late 1970s, early 1980s. Montreal is Canada's top French-speaking city. In 1977, approximately just when she arrived, a law was passed in Quebec requiring the use of the French language. Apparently there were a lot of Kamalas around who weren't doing it. Despite that law, she still doesn't seem to have picked up any French.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: California
KEYWORDS: bloggers; canada; france; kamalaharris; monicashowalter; montreal; paris; quebec; shesaliar; smdh; thomaslifson
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To: rktman

The only thing French she picked up probably had a mustache.


42 posted on 11/26/2021 8:04:58 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: rktman

Cajun French is similar to some Redneck after a year of classic French immersion. “MaiS Wee?”


43 posted on 11/26/2021 8:06:45 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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To: woweeitsme

She probably could understand basic written and spoken French, but wouldn’t venture to speak it in public for fear of making mistakes. That’s pretty typical of North Americans and foreign languages. It’s also standard procedure for politicians to rely on interpreters, both in public and in private.


44 posted on 11/26/2021 8:07:49 AM PST by x
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To: rktman

She can cackle in 18 different languages.


46 posted on 11/26/2021 8:09:08 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down pres. Brandon!)
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To: Liaison

Off topic, but it’s interesting how people can understand each other. I was in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea, haggling with an old, deaf lady about the price of some item. The whole time, the only thing we used was a calculator, and we communicated fine.


47 posted on 11/26/2021 8:09:30 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (The best slaves put their own chains on )
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To: realcleanguy

I referred to my ex-wife as “La belle dame sans-merci”.

CC


48 posted on 11/26/2021 8:09:48 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: billorites

My thoughts exactly. When you are dumb as a box of rocks, the only thing you have to sell is between your legs (excuse me ladies), and she did just that being Willie Brown’s Ho out in Kaliforniahomostan back in her earlier days. I wonder about her husband. Didn’t the guy know his new wife was Brown’s whore all those years. Certainly, Brown’s wife did. I read an article some time back where Mrs. Brown said she did not mind Willie having his girlfriend because “Willie works so hard and he needs his little releases of the pressures he is under.” (or words to that effect). But Mrs. Brown KNEW her husband was humping Harris, so why didn’t her husband???? Maybe he liked being married to a Ho. Who the hell knows about these liberal commies!!!


50 posted on 11/26/2021 8:20:06 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
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To: butlerweave

It’s SO not real French that I’ve been asked (while speaking French) three times in Montreal and once in Quebec City if I am from France.

That has never happened to me (not even close) in Belgium, Switzerland, or, (duh) France.

I think the Quebeckers are so used to the sullen, hostile, mangled French spoken by their English Canadian visitors that when they meet a North American speaking half-way decent French, they just assume he must be from France.


51 posted on 11/26/2021 8:26:05 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: RetiredArmy

The Browns weren’t living together and hadn’t been for years. Of course Blanche Brown is going to say things like that to save face and make up for the fact that Willie hadn’t been playing a role in her life for years.


52 posted on 11/26/2021 8:26:23 AM PST by x
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To: realcleanguy

Interesting, I’m much more Frog than I thought.


53 posted on 11/26/2021 8:30:59 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: rktman

C’mon man! She had the accent down . . .


54 posted on 11/26/2021 8:33:47 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Kin y’all sell me a huntin’ license?


55 posted on 11/26/2021 8:35:30 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: butlerweave

“Quebec french is not Real French”

This is true.


56 posted on 11/26/2021 8:36:59 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: rktman

They had to find someone dumber than joe to be his vp.


57 posted on 11/26/2021 8:39:51 AM PST by robel
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To: nesnah

“Oh, she certainly knows a little French:

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi.....”

WINNER!

Post of the thread.


58 posted on 11/26/2021 8:40:25 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: faucetman

I actually expected Kamalamadingdong to become a media darling like Mo Obama was for 8 yrs but it really hasn’t happened. Even libs are snarking on her.

I think that’s because they realize the party needs somebody better for the 2024 race. Booty-Gig seems to be the media golden boy right now.


59 posted on 11/26/2021 8:43:04 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: rktman

She doesn’t use English very well either.


60 posted on 11/26/2021 8:43:09 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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