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iordanis
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Greece
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 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
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 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.


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
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 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!

I can imagine John Howard accomplishing anything. The man is amazing!
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ExtraLean
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 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
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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.


I think he went to school in New York, and he speaks good English
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sajro
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 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.


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
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 Message 23 of 23
26 August 2008 at 6:34pm | IP Logged 
Except for Ron Paul. :)


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