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MäcØSŸ
Diglot
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United Kingdom
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Studies: German

 
 Message 97 of 142
19 June 2009 at 4:40pm | IP Logged 
Italian politicians are not good with foreign languages, here are two funny videos:
Rutelli
Berlusconi
:D
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Grammaticus
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 Message 98 of 142
19 June 2009 at 8:36pm | IP Logged 
Norwegians are often given credit for speaking good English, but it's not always the case. About 30 years ago, when opening a fair, prime minister Oddvar Nordli said in his welcome adress: "Welcome to this mess!". Messe in norwegian means fair.
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William Camden
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 Message 99 of 142
19 June 2009 at 11:14pm | IP Logged 
Grammaticus wrote:
Norwegians are often given credit for speaking good English, but it's not always the case. About 30 years ago, when opening a fair, prime minister Oddvar Nordli said in his welcome adress: "Welcome to this mess!". Messe in norwegian means fair.


Messe is presumably a loanword from German.
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Grammaticus
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 Message 100 of 142
20 June 2009 at 1:14pm | IP Logged 
William Camden wrote:
Grammaticus wrote:
Norwegians are often given credit for speaking good English, but it's not always the case. About 30 years ago, when opening a fair, prime minister Oddvar Nordli said in his welcome adress: "Welcome to this mess!". Messe in norwegian means fair.


Messe is presumably a loanword from German.


Yup
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Juan M.
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 Message 102 of 142
08 July 2009 at 3:48pm | IP Logged 
The Colombian presidential elections are a year away, and one of the main weeklies is running a series of profiles on the many figures who may participate in the different primaries. Readers of this forum might find it interesting that one of the categories used for presenting them -along with previous positions and place of birth- is languages. Most of the ones I've seen speak several.
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Juan M.
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Colombia
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 Message 103 of 142
08 July 2009 at 3:50pm | IP Logged 
zocurtis wrote:
Barack Obama speaks Indonesian, has a passable knowledge in Spanish and I think he is an intellectual in English.


At the very least, he is a very capable reader of English from flashing screens.
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