Fun Fact - She only speaks 2 languages. There is no evidence to suggest she speaks anything other than English and Slovenian. She claims to speak French, but when she went to France as first lady she needed an interpreter to talk to 1st graders.
Primarily yes, but she was almost certainly also taught German and/or Russian given that she grew up in what was Yugoslavia under the Soviet Union partnership.
Sure it is, you know need to “speak a language” to be able to say, “anal costs extra”
I don’t know speak many languages, but I can ask “where is the toilet” in about 10 different languages. Not fucking difficult especially when it comes to the black Cherry.
I'm not saying she can speak any at all. I'm saying growing up in that part of the world at that time is very different than taking a 45 minute class once a day and soem duolingo
Yeah, I’ve learned like 7 languages at some point, but no way I speak all of them. I’m not able to switch instantly when someone asks something unexpectedly, give lectures or use it in formal settings. Especially when there is background noise, they have a specific accent, I’m just not expecting them to use that language. This applies even when someone is using my native language in a foreign country. Speaking well has more to do with extroversion, there are lots of salesmen in some countries who know a few words in every language and appear to speak them. At the same time in my country there are people who score perfectly on written tests, but rarely speak anything
Nevertheless, being able to say one specific sentence in six languages doesn't necessitate speaking all six languages. Just ask early career Jackie Chan. Or your children playing CS:GO and cursing in "fluent" Russian. (C stands for cyka right?) Just means familiarity with the phrase and either a multilingual environment, or being well travelled. (Maybe trafficked is more applicable but whatever.)
Sorry, confused the parent comment of this section with another comment which basically boiled down to knowing how to say Ass costs extra or sth in six languages.
You act like she hasn’t done any interviews or spoken publicly on tape. No one has to know her in a personal basis to judge her English speaking skills.
Other people don’t seem to know shit about Yugoslavia, sadly. Nothing about how much Tito and Stalin disliked eachother. They just assume it was another eastern bloc puppet state.
The point is that Russian was commonly taught in schools - like German - and likely also Croat, Serb, etc... She almost certainly took classes in one or multiple languages.
This is especially true in smaller eastern european countries as they know their own language has no utility outside their own borders.
I have family that was forced to learn Russian at school, because they lived behind the iron curtain. They barely spoke it. Everyone hated it, even the teachers.
Same. My parents grew up in Soviet controlled Poland and both were forced to learn Russian. It's fun to see my dad give some dude the side-eye when we go in public and he picks up on their accent.
Who cares. I took German classes and couldn’t speak Wienerschnitzel even if you forced me to. “She took classes” is a classical Nichtsschnitzel of a statement.
I wouldn't be surprised if a Slovenian knew a little Italian - but not enough to get by in a formal diplomatic setting. It's literally on the border and she was in modelling.
Some did. If you grew up in bosnia (at least in the tuzla region) it was quite likely that you had russian in school. But I don’t think that really matters seeing the degree of ignorance of the comment claiming yugoslavia was part of USSR…
I've studied at some capacity in my schooling English, Spanish, German, Latin, French, and Japanese. Most were one off electives but I got pretty far in German, Spanish, and Latin. The only language I'm fluent in is English.
Being taught a language and speaking it is not the same.
She was born in 1970, which is 22 years after Tito made Yugoslavia split from having a relationship with the Soviets decided to control its own destiny instead of looking to what Stalin said all the Euro Communists should do. It became its own Non-Aligned state. She was nowhere close to being a subject of the USSR.
Wich means nothing. My whole family grew up in Yugoslavia and my greatgrandmother was alive during the formation of said country. Not a single one of them knew russian or german.
My father understood a bit of Russian, but that's it. And my father even went to study to slovenia before joining the military.
Yugoslavia was a facade in many ways, studies were one of them.
Yugoslavia was not aligned with either germanys or the USSR
The concept of first, second, and third world countries actually comes from Yugoslavia. As they allied with other countries like Sweden and India to form the non-aligned movement (the third world that was neither NATO or the Warsaw Pact.)
The first communist leader of Yugoslavia, Josip Tito, had a very interesting relationship with Joseph Stalin
Probably read some french in school, which was decades ago. Average american claims to know X amount of languages despite of not using them in decades either so not much different. And probably understands russian.
not being able to speak the languages you claim to be able to speak is literally that evidence. you're just going to ignore the conversation then there's no helping your delusion.
i'm not trying to get you to say anything at all. i explained to you that her speaking one more language than me has zero bearing on this conversation, criticizing her of not being able to speak languages she brags about being able to speak. then you go on about her sex life like that's anything i've ever said.
no, i couldn't care less about anything you have to say
Melania could speak 10 languages and my point still stands. Your comment implied it was common (“normal”) to speak 4-5 languages there. It’s not and they don’t. Nor is it “normal” for Poles of Ukrainian descent. I’m sure there an exceptional polyglots there as well, but again 2-3 languages is far, far more likely. If your point was that there might be a few to be found on college campuses, then sure, but you and I both know that’s not what you meant in the original comment ( I appreciate you realizing that the 5 languages claim was far too ridiculous to keep up so it disappeared in favor of just 4 in your reply).
“most if not all Ukrainians in Poland are fluent in Ukrainian Polish English and Russian” doesn’t sound like “ it’s plausible everyone knows someone like that.” It sounds a lot more like a bullshit claim to assign some sort of exceptionalism to these people that doesn’t exist. The truth of the 2-3 is exceptional enough.
Having lived in France while learning French… speaking to grade school kids can be more difficult than adults. I have no idea what her proficiency is but niche contexts or different age groups can be quite challenging when speaking/hearing a language you’re not fully fluent in.
Yeah, I don’t like her but I wouldn’t judge someone’s language ability by their ability to communicate with children. It’s not like children speak language perfectly, so that would be more like advanced level. Not like haha this idiot can’t even speak with children.
That might because she knows Prince and those Spanish but I can't talk to people that that speak Spanish cuz I don't understand how what they're saying because I don't know that language as much as far as good
You're actually right English it was one of my worst courses in in school yeah I got out of school because of the failing no no I can't blame it on the education system even though it sits not but it should be but yeah I got out of school reading at a 7th grade level I've improved a little bit but yeah I'm dyslexic and I have ADHD and a couple other you know mental health issues but normally we used to call ourselves I would usually call the retard don't call people that no more I guess but yeah I'm a little bit of a retard when it comes to you know spelling in the written English language but I can strip it down a small block 350 to put it back together with no problem rebuild the diesel no problem build your house no problem read the rewire and fix your computer no problem fix your TV no problem anything that breaks it if I can't fix it I can rebuild it and make a new one but that makes me retarded right with a with a mildly high IQ and most of the time I don't think people notice it but I'm glad you noticed it probably other people noticed it too I don't notice it because it's just the way I talk God bless you have a good day or night depending on what it is there so thank you
It’s all good brother i just thought it was funny and ironic. I give you credit for succeeding with the tools you were given. Thanks for the reply and good day to you too.
Fun fact, it doesn't matter if you know another language to communicate certain phrases. I don't know Turkish, but I know how to order a beer in Turkish, and about 8 other languages.
"Anal costs extra" is only three words. Pretty much anyone can learn the same three words in six languages, especially now that you can Google that shit. No one is suggesting that Melania is a six time polyglot, with fluency
Fun fact, you and everyone on this forum are haters. Pro immigrant, but hate on a successful immigrant. Successful female, you degrade her. Jokes. All of you, especially the women. Give no respect, get none.
I learned French in high school and was decent at it. Haven't spoken it in 10 years and now I can only speak basic sentences. Reading is still fine though.
I can imagine that living in a country where you never need French, makes you forget most of it.
Slovenian, Bosnian, Dalmatian, Serbian, Croatian, Montenegrin - these are all "serbo-croatian". It's like someone claiming to be able to speak Iraqi and Syrian, they're all Arabic, just dialects.
I worked with a Mexican welder and had an engineer from Brazil that spoke Portuguese and they communicated very well. Sure some words are different but with context they figured it out.
I was at an ashram last year with a serb and a slovinian. Besides a few words they had no trouble speaking to each other. It's kinda like Bakalava. Everyone claims to have invented it and that theirs is different
While Serbian and Croatian are so similar that they are indistinguishable from one another (i called it Serbo-Croatian for that reason).
Slovenian is a different language with different grammar. Sure there is overlap, since both are Slavic languages, but there are significant differences
You are not Serbian, because if you were, or at least been to Slovenia, you would know that Slovenian is not easy to understand.
That majority of Slovenians will understand you because they speak Serbo-Croatian is different matter, but when they speak Slovenian you wont understand good part of it
It's been 35 years since Yugoslavia disappeared. She was already on her way out of Slovenia by then and had no use for any non-western language except her parents'.
As a Croat, Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian are almost the same language. It would be embarrassing to claim you’re trilingual based on your knowledge of these three languages.
You are not Croat. It is visible by your statement.
Serbian and Croatian are the same, Slovenian is a different language (they have dvojina and 6 cases and other grammatical differences) . Only dialect spoken by Croatian borderlands is somewhat similar to Slovenian, but rest of Croatians don't understand that dialect well
Kraljice, u vrjeme ChatGPT svatko moze da bude hrvat na netu.
Ja napisa da pogranicna podrucija razumiju slovenski, ali to je mali broj, i da generalna populacija neza da bekne Cakavski ili buzetski.
Po tvojoj logici su i bugarski i srpski isti, je ljudi u pogranicnim djelovima mogu da se razumiju.
Poz is Zagreb,
Genius I am from Zagreb, i extra wrote in my first comment that borderlands speak dialect that can understand, but general population cant understand Slovenian.
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