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| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5361 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 25 20 April 2010 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Apparently Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats(UK political party) speaks English,
Dutch, French, German, and Spanish. Caught a brief conversation that he had in Spanish with a Venezuelan while on the campaign trail recently. Jim 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5153 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 25 21 April 2010 at 5:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting. though not interested in a leader of a liberal party personally.
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| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5361 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 25 21 April 2010 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Not sure why anyone would reply simply to say that they were not interested in the topic. It wouldn't be something about trying to inflate the post count would it?
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| gogglehead Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5889 days ago 248 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Italian | Message 4 of 25 21 April 2010 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Very interesting man this Mr Clegg. I heard something about him today, but didn't catch it all. Apparently he has a half-Russian father, a Dutch mother, and a Spanish wife, the perfect conditions to create a polyglot.
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| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5283 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 5 of 25 21 April 2010 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Voting for someone based on their being a polyglot irrespective of their politics is politically irresponsible in my opinion, but I like the fact Clegg is multilingual, and wish there were more British politicians like him.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5148 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 25 22 April 2010 at 11:41am | IP Logged | ||
Tha sounds like a very atypical background for a British politician! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| gogglehead Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5889 days ago 248 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Italian | Message 7 of 25 22 April 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Erm, I thought it was obvious that it was a joke. Obviously not. I am voting Liberal for entirely different reasons, and I happen to be very politically aware, and follow the politics of my country very closely. Not that it has anything to do with you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bookends Triglot Newbie Sweden Joined 5201 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 8 of 25 02 May 2010 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I found a video through wikipedia where he speaks Dutch:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/uk-politics-video/ 7603906/Nick-Clegg-gives-interview-in-fluent-Dutch.html Anyone with any knowledge of Dutch who can judge him? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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