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How many UK PMs have been bi/multi lingual?

I heard that Obama is the first american president to be bilingual... whats the case in Britain?

Update:

... Obama is fluent in Spanish. Fact. And Bush could barely speak English let alone anything else!

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  • JOHN G
    Lv 7
    10 years ago
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    The questions says UK PMs - I believe Tony Blair & Margaret Thatcher both speak French, not that it really matters as interpreters are also on hand during meetings.

  • 10 years ago

    You have heard wrong. I have no idea how many presidents have been bilingual, but George Washington was....oh, and then there is the fact that Barack Obama is NOT. He does not speak any other language, (unless he remembers his scripture verses in Arabic, but that is the only Arabic that he knows)

    ADDED: Sorry, but Obama does not speak ANY foreign language. He was asked how many languages he could speak after he blasted Americans for not being bilingual....he admitted that he did not speak any foreign language. Do not take my word for it....TAKE BARACK OBAMA'S. Link below.

    ADDED: Bush and Carter both spoke Spanish. Bill Clinton speaks German. Early presidents were all bi-lingual at least, and likely spoke Latin and Greek, as they would have learned them in school. So Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Q. Adams all had knowledge of Latin and Greek, along with some later college educated presidents, including T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Hoover, and Kennedy. (And this list is probably not exhaustive.) It is typically accepted that Jefferson spoke 6 languages fluently. I am sure that there are others. But again, BHO SPEAKS ONLY ENGLISH

    You might want to get a new account after you screwed the pooch on this question so badly that you will NEVER be credited with knowledge after stating as "fact" a complete lie and being wrong on...well everything.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    no person's precisely equivalent in diverse languages--one or yet another is often going to be extra effective; it particularly is why translators do extra effective translating into their mom tongue. Even interior of a language, there are community adjustments--a "bag" is a "sack" is a "poke" in English, "jugo de china" es lo mismo de "zumo de naranja" in Spanish. in case you sense advantageous in yet another tongue, comprehend extra or much less each thing that others say (no longer unavoidably each be conscious while they are arguing at warp speed) and can clarify what you advise (even while the suitable be conscious escapes you), you could evaluate your self bi-lingual or multi-lingual. Others will continually argue over those words, forget approximately them.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    All Brit Pm's, like all politicians speak fluent crap and bullsh!t does that count?

    A lot like the pillock directly above me ....

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    GWB spoke Spanish.

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