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Well, that's easy for HIM to say..... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jul 27
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ALBliberal
(2,804 posts)1. God I love him
Deuxcents
(19,175 posts)2. I did not know he was bi lingual...a plus for the vetting process for VP
SeattleVet
(5,576 posts)3. He's not bilingual...that would be way too easy.
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?
rubbersole
(8,254 posts)6. I think it's Mr. Vice-president.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,291 posts)7. Ha! I can easily live with that.
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
Thank you
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,291 posts)9. Sometimes I'm lazy and just ask DU instead of duckduckgo. :D
SunSeeker
(53,404 posts)5. He'd make a great Secretary of State. nt
calimary
(83,835 posts)10. And that would set him up for a presidential race of his own.
FlyingPiggy
(3,699 posts)11. Gosh, I REALLY like Pete. One of these days, he will make a wonderful POTUS.
PeaceWave
(757 posts)12. Screw Secretary of Defense. Mayor Pete's a Secretary of State.
speak easy
(10,312 posts)13. especially if you did not sign off on it
first
Mira
(22,467 posts)14. Being only bi-lingual
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
I've been taking Spanish lessons on Duolingo and I pretty much followed what he said