Buttigieg speaks eight languages – “some better than others,” he said at a CNN town hall – including Norwegian, Maltese, Arabic, Spanish and Dari.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/pete-buttigieg-arabic-spanish-farsi/index.html

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,291 posts)

4. Is "polyglot" the correct term for that?

Reply to SeattleVet (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:05 AM

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rubbersole

(8,254 posts)

6. I think it's Mr. Vice-president.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:08 AM

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Hermit-The-Prog

(36,291 posts)

7. Ha! I can easily live with that.

Reply to rubbersole (Reply #6)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:10 AM

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Deuxcents

(19,175 posts)

8. Yes, that's the word. Did not know that or that Pete speaks several languages. Learn something new here all the time

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #4)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:17 AM

Jul 28

Thank you

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,291 posts)

9. Sometimes I'm lazy and just ask DU instead of duckduckgo. :D

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Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:21 AM

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SunSeeker

(53,404 posts)

5. He'd make a great Secretary of State. nt

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Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:05 AM

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calimary

(83,835 posts)

10. And that would set him up for a presidential race of his own.

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Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:49 AM

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FlyingPiggy

(3,699 posts)

11. Gosh, I REALLY like Pete. One of these days, he will make a wonderful POTUS.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:52 AM

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PeaceWave

(757 posts)

12. Screw Secretary of Defense. Mayor Pete's a Secretary of State.

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Sun Jul 28, 2024, 01:55 AM

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speak easy

(10,312 posts)

13. especially if you did not sign off on it

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 02:00 AM

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first

Mira

(22,467 posts)

14. Being only bi-lingual

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 02:21 AM

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I'm impressed with his grasp, and I know he has good knowledge of other languages. It boomerangs when you are proficient in more than one. By the way, Melanoma Trump has about two or three sentences memorized in the languages she supposedly speaks.
Her English is poor, as well.

Skittles

(157,739 posts)

15. oh wow

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Jul 28, 2024, 02:27 AM

Jul 28

I've been taking Spanish lessons on Duolingo and I pretty much followed what he said

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