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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: ealgeone
She’s about as bright as a 1 watt bulb.

Come on, get with the spin. She's as bright as thousand milliwatt bulb!
61 posted on 11/26/2021 8:43:52 AM PST by Colinsky
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To: Brian Griffin

The French language is ALL ABOUT the accent.

HOW it is spoken not the words that are spoken.

Some southerners are almost impossible to understand, even though I know they are speaking American English.

Hard to hear an accent on the printed page.


62 posted on 11/26/2021 8:46:08 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: rktman

She is not normal. Normal people learn the language of the host.


63 posted on 11/26/2021 8:51:57 AM PST by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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To: rktman

Sucking off powerful men was way easier than learning French.


64 posted on 11/26/2021 8:59:54 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: billorites

She doesn’t speak English either, froom the way she sounds


65 posted on 11/26/2021 9:12:40 AM PST by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: rktman

Did she have a male teacher?


66 posted on 11/26/2021 9:18:22 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Meh, that’s like Brits thinking their minority dialect is proper English.


67 posted on 11/26/2021 9:23:53 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: ping jockey

“Your back handed slap at the south is noted.”

What? You do not recognize the perfectly polished and refined English of Boston, Philadelphia, New England, New Joisey, etc?


68 posted on 11/26/2021 9:32:04 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s a good point. I’m sure if I were, I’d remember how to speak it now.


69 posted on 11/26/2021 9:34:22 AM PST by woweeitsme
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To: Srednik

“She is not normal. Normal people learn the language of the host.”

Yeah, no, that’s not a thing.

Think someone going on a trip to Europe just sits down and learns French, German and Spanish? A trip to Japan just learn Japanese real quick?

At best they learn hello, goodbye, and where is the toilet. You know, enough that the local knows you do not speak the language.


70 posted on 11/26/2021 9:37:28 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: realcleanguy

It’s like those French have a different word for everything.


71 posted on 11/26/2021 9:40:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

72 posted on 11/26/2021 9:43:48 AM PST by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: rktman

You can get along in English in Quebec. It takes a bit of intelligence to learn a new language. She is an entitled privileged rich kid who made it to the top by taking male members in her body.

It’s unlikely she did that with biden.


73 posted on 11/26/2021 10:10:35 AM PST by I want the USA back
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To: butlerweave

Quebec, ce n`est pas moi!


74 posted on 11/26/2021 10:11:31 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect?? It was NYC.)
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To: rktman

No kidding. She is from Montreal.

But she lived in an English speaking neighborhood. The wealthiest one in Canada.


75 posted on 11/26/2021 10:35:39 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: rktman

She’d already been to educated in Oaklandese

She’s not from Oakland. She had nothing to do with Oakland.


76 posted on 11/26/2021 10:38:49 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: billorites

Ooh-la-la. C’est magnifique.


77 posted on 11/26/2021 10:47:35 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: realcleanguy

And don’t forget to throw in “merdre” every once in awhile to look cool.


78 posted on 11/26/2021 10:53:18 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: Roccus

French Ebonics ...

Oui .... c’est Quebecois.

I’m sure i’m not the first to mention that ;-)


79 posted on 11/26/2021 11:06:15 AM PST by Cloverfarm (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ...)
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To: rktman

Montreal is cosmopolitan enough that most people there speak English, unlike Quebec City.


80 posted on 11/26/2021 11:11:47 AM PST by Mr. Blond
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