Trump's wife speaks 5 languages. How many languages do you speak?

[Anonymous]

French Russian English Yiddish.

[Anonymous]

I know 3 languages and also learned 2 ancient ones. I'm learning another one right now and plan on learning at least 2 more.

[Anonymous]

I speak two. My husband speaks five. Most of the people we know who are truly polyglot grew up in another, often smaller, country, where learning a second language was much more important. And several of them grew up in the Soviet bloc and were required to learn Russian.

[Anonymous]

How is that relevant to anything?

"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."

[Anonymous]

Wait she's allowed to speak?

[Anonymous]

I speak 5, fluently. Unfortunately, the number of languages you speak only matter if you actually have something to say.

[Anonymous]

Shouldn't this be in politics? .

[Anonymous]

Six, but not all fluently. English, French, and Spanish fluently. I remember most of my HS Latin, but am better at reading it than speaking or understanding it spoken. We had a German exchange student one year when I was growing up who taught me quite a bit. I was okay getting around Germany when I went with friends after college. Just the basics, really. Also just the basics of Italian. I spent a summer there as part of an exchange program. It was my first time going to another country where I knew pretty much none of the language and I remember being so terrified.

Didn't grow up with parents who encouraged me to learn multiple languages or who spoke any other than English. I just loved learning to speak a new language.

[Anonymous]

Speak 5 languages fluently and 1 that I'm conversational in. I used to be conversational in an African dialect but have mostly lost it after a decade of not using it.

I'm also a citizen of 3 countries, although I was born and raised in the US.

[Anonymous]

Fluency is relative. Japanese, Thai, French, & Portuguese all well enough to have complex conversations, understand a bit of humor, and read newspapers. But I would be out of my depth in technical/legal discussions and reading a novel in any of the above would give me a headache. Lived in countries that spoke these languages for at least a year and had formal language training for at least 3 yrs in each.

Spanish & Italian too, but only at a basic level - asking instructions, simple texts, and a lot of grammatical errors on my part.

[Anonymous]

Speak fluently is the key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Speak fluently is the key.

I only claim 2, the ones I can use in work settings as an attorney, read novels in, have political discussions in, appreciate poetry in. I lived in 5 countries growing up, lived several years in each. But I attended international schools where the main curriculum was in English with a few hours of language classes from the host country. I went to college in Asia and moved to the US for grad school. I noticed a lot of Americans "claim" to speak a language such as Spanish when all they did was take some Spanish in high school. If that's what we are talking about, I speak 6 languages. I actually lived in these different countries. But I kid myself to think I could have meaningful conversations and debates in these languages or watch their movies and understand 95-100% of it. This whole topic of how many language do you speak without talking about proficiency is meaningless.

[Anonymous]

3 languages.

But, what if it turns out she might have possibly run afoul of a immigration rule in the 1990s?

Impeachment?

[Anonymous]

English, Dutch, German, French and Spanish.

PS: who cares what languages Trump's wife speaks?

[Anonymous]

She has a name. It's Melania. Or did you not know that women maintain their own identity?

I speak three languages. But who cares?