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To: freespirited
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

Maybe not Indonesian but how about...(with a first-rate accent, no less)
 
Obama: Man of the World
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: March 6, 2007

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to
prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that
seemed delightfully uncalculated [...], Mr. Obama described the
call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at
sunset."

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://nevadathunder.com/?p=3626




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27 posted on 04/03/2008 9:09:32 PM PDT by JCG
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To: JCG

“fluent in Indonesian”

At his young age in Indonesia, he probably thought that all that Arabic he was hearing, and reciting, was the language of Indonesia. So, his statement is probably really an admission/claim that he was (once) fluent in Arabic!


62 posted on 04/04/2008 9:05:01 PM PDT by Tellurian
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