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Well, that's easy for HIM to say..... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jul 2024
OP
Yes, that's the word. Did not know that or that Pete speaks several languages. Learn something new here all the time
Deuxcents
Jul 2024
#8
Gosh, I REALLY like Pete. One of these days, he will make a wonderful POTUS.
FlyingPiggy
Jul 2024
#11
ALBliberal
(3,064 posts)1. God I love him
Deuxcents
(23,118 posts)2. I did not know he was bi lingual...a plus for the vetting process for VP
SeattleVet
(5,707 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
(36,631 posts)4. Is "polyglot" the correct term for that?
rubbersole
(10,129 posts)6. I think it's Mr. Vice-president.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)7. Ha! I can easily live with that.
Deuxcents
(23,118 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
(36,631 posts)9. Sometimes I'm lazy and just ask DU instead of duckduckgo. :D
SunSeeker
(56,170 posts)5. He'd make a great Secretary of State. nt
calimary
(87,116 posts)10. And that would set him up for a presidential race of his own.
FlyingPiggy
(3,746 posts)11. Gosh, I REALLY like Pete. One of these days, he will make a wonderful POTUS.
PeaceWave
(1,713 posts)12. Screw Secretary of Defense. Mayor Pete's a Secretary of State.
speak easy
(11,989 posts)13. especially if you did not sign off on it
first
Mira
(22,548 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
(166,124 posts)15. oh wow
I've been taking Spanish lessons on Duolingo and I pretty much followed what he said