does anyone know where i can find out what languages each of the various US presidents and world leaders speak/spoke fluently?
i am interested and i have never seen a collection of this information.
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does anyone know where i can find out what languages each of the various US presidents and world leaders speak/spoke fluently?
i am interested and i have never seen a collection of this information.
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uh...bush can barely speak english if thats any help.
i know teddy rosevelt could speak at least 3 (english, spanish, french) but thats all i can help u with.
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A comment spoken by someone who is obvioulsy barely intelligent.uh...bush can barely speak english if thats any help.
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English thats all they needed
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Yes, how can some one like that put food on his family?Originally Posted by PanzerJager
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Gentlemen,
Play nice.
A comment about a political figure should not lead to an personal insult fest.
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how'do you know
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Everyone who speaks with Chirac speaks French, so I'm wondering. Wether French is still the diplomatic language or Chirac is just too lazy/idiot to speak another language. Anyway, if he's as skilled in English as our last prime minister was, he surely should speak French
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I can swear I've heard Chirac speak english on a few occasions.
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Chirac lived in the US for years
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Yes, how can some one like that put food on his family?Hmmm....I'm wondering about this putting food "on his family" thing.
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Bush speaks Bubba English and apparently Spanish--although when I asked a fellow engineer (and Bush supporter) about Dubya's Spanish in 1999 or early 2000 the response I got was, "Oh Lord, he butchers my language." I replied that Bush did the same for mine.
Would be interesting to see a list of purported languages by president. Most are going to be college graduates that have taken some foreign language classes.
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Yeah, I was just being an ass. I'm fairly sure he speaks english. Yet, almost everytime he meets an European leader, both would speak french.
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Jefferson spoke French, Latin and Greek, and if memory serves German as well as English. He wrote his version of the Bible in the first three plus English.
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Ah let 'em play. They always do this. It rarely turns to gunslinging and fisticuffs. I would hardly qualify this as "an insult fest".
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Chirac is fluent in English.
He learned it at Harvard and in New Orleans, where in the 1950's he wrote his thesis about the development of the port of New Orléans, pointing out, yes, the dangers of a possible flooding.
He speaks Russian too.
And no, chances of hearing him speak either in public are pretty slim. A president of France is adressed in French, and conducts diplomacy in French. It is part of that whole 'the world needs to adapt to us, not the other way round' crap.
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