iordanis Triglot Newbie Greece Joined 5790 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Greek*, French, English
| Message 17 of 23 14 July 2008 at 9:48am | IP Logged |
russian is a very interesting language and demands passion and commitment to learn it. which is better, having a medium level of knowledge of many foreign languages or a high command of one or two/and how many languages can we really learn in depth?a language is an immense world. i live in my country since my birth and i can't say i know everything of her. is it the same with language?
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ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6771 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2
| Message 18 of 23 14 July 2008 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
ExtraLean wrote:
Kevin Rudd, the Australian PM pulls of Mandarin and English well enough to impress people. I don't know if he has any others under his belt though. |
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I was pretty impressed when I heard this. I can't imagine John Howard ever pulling something like that out!
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leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog
| Message 19 of 23 15 July 2008 at 10:01am | IP Logged |
ymapazagain wrote:
I can't imagine John Howard ever pulling something like that out! |
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I can imagine John Howard accomplishing anything. The man is amazing!
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ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5806 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 20 of 23 26 August 2008 at 2:49pm | IP Logged |
The thread is dead, long live the thread.
I saw the President of Georgia in an interview with TF1 this evening. He spoke French and it made me recall this thread. So I figure I will revive it by saying:
"Mikheil Saakachvili can speak atleast French, and Georgian, and I believe I saw something with him speaking English recently, and I figure he can speak atleast a bit of Russian as well."
Thom.
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Soxpast22 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5840 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin Studies: Irish
| Message 21 of 23 26 August 2008 at 5:57pm | IP Logged |
ExtraLean wrote:
The thread is dead, long live the thread.
I saw the President of Georgia in an interview with TF1 this evening. He spoke French and it made me recall this thread. So I figure I will revive it by saying:
"Mikheil Saakachvili can speak atleast French, and Georgian, and I believe I saw something with him speaking English recently, and I figure he can speak atleast a bit of Russian as well."
Thom. |
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I think he went to school in New York, and he speaks good English
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sajro Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5808 days ago 129 posts - 131 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 22 of 23 26 August 2008 at 6:06pm | IP Logged |
iordanis wrote:
in fact i don't trust politicians very much even if they are poliglotts or not. |
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I don't trust them at all! I believe that no politician could be an honest man, and no honest man could be a politician.
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Makrasiroutioun Quadrilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Canada infowars.com Joined 5918 days ago 210 posts - 236 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Armenian*, Romanian*, Latin, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Arabic (Written)
| Message 23 of 23 26 August 2008 at 6:34pm | IP Logged |
Except for Ron Paul. :)
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