The First Lady spoke from the Rose Garden at the White House Credit: AP:Associated Press. Midler added.
But it is certainly the primary language of most of South and Central America, Spain, and, ahem, large swathes of the US. If you’re going to Europe and plan on visiting multiple countries, how do you decide what phrases to learn? Herbert Hoover’s remarkable wife Lou Henry Hoover knew Mandarin Chinese. But this is another instance of numbers not telling the full tale: Arabic, like Chinese, is so vastly different in its respective dialects as to be effectively a number of languages, grouped as one for the sake of convenience.

Spoken mainly in northern India and parts of Pakistan, Hindi uses devnagri script, while Urdu uses Persian notation. They also sought to defend the Slovenian-born first lady by repeating the popular claim that she is fluent in multiple languages. If we were only to look at native speakers, Spanish has its nose in front of English with about 460 million speakers. We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. He said: “It’s not what somebody who knows Italian would do. James grew up in Australia and has worked as an independent theatre producer, filmmaker and teacher in Hanoi and Berlin. She became a U.S. citizen in 2006. “Melania Trump on Her Life, Marriage and 2016.” Rushing to the first lady’s defense was former NRA mouthpiece Dana Loesch, who took aim at Midler’s comments and stated as fact that Trump is multilingual. India has 23 official languages, with Hindi/Urdu chief among them. “You would at least show the kids you speak french and show off a bit for the local audience.”.
A UGE bore!” Bette Midler tweeted with regards to Melania Trump’s words from the newly revamped White House Rose Garden on Tuesday. One small caveat: Assigning hard data, in the form of “X million native speakers,” to any of these languages is practically impossible. So who’s in the Top 10 most spoken languages? She’s been here over two decades and her English is still very poor.

Here we break down the 13 most useful phrases for traveling around Europe, and translate them into the six most common European languages. "#beBest is back! Commenting on a Politico story that called the first lady’s speech a push for unity, O’Brien suggested a new headline. What really happened? Midler was blasted on social media after her Twitter rant as Melania praised her husband Donald as a "man of action" who is "humbled" by his fans in her unvetted speech. Which are the most important?

What constitutes a language or a dialect is hotly contested stuff. This is an approximate list of languages by the total number of speakers. Melania was seen introducing herself to the children in their native tongue. So what are the top 10 languages of the world? Language expert John Aravosis posted a video on YouTube in 2017 which analysed Melania’s language skills.

Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. Being from a small European country, being multilingual is not that remarkable. He said during their visit the First Lady went to a children’s hospital where she greeted the kids and “said a few perfunctory words in Italian and then spoke English the entire time”.

More troubling is the fact that what we refer to simply as “Chinese” is actually a whole family of languages conveniently lumped into a single category. The spread of Portuguese may have initially been tied to European colonization, but the colonized countries developed their own vibrant cultures that transformed the language forever. Mrs. Trump will also be the first and only First Lady born in a foreign country since John Quincy Adams’ wife Louisa, who was born in England. Despite these claims, there has been little to no proof that she speaks any of these languages, other than Slovenian and English, with any degree of fluency. #beBust.".

He went on to claim Melania kept talking to the children when she had the opportunity to throw some words in, but didn’t. Numbers vary widely — Ethnologue puts the number of native speakers at 1.3 billion native speakers, roughly 917 million of whom speak Mandarin — but there’s no doubt it’s the most spoken language in the world. Louisa spoke Dutch. Midler then took more hits at Melania's Slovenian roots. "#beBest is back! Currently best known as a former fashion model, liberal borrower of speech text, and mother of Donald’s youngest child, 10-year-old son Barron, Melania Trump grew up in what was then Yugoslavia in the area that is now Slovenia. For example, when the Trumps visited Pope Francis in Rome in May 2017, a news clip captured the pontiff jokingly asking the first lady (in Italian) what she feeds her husband. “Melania Trump Speaks French!” In February 2016, months before President Donald Trump was elected, First Lady Melania Trump was interviewed by MSNBC. Likewise, when the president and first lady visited France, a video of the event offered by the British news outlet The Telegraph was captioned, “Melania Trump speaks French!” — although it didn’t capture the first lady saying much more than “Hello” and “My name is Melania” in French: We were unable to locate any videos or recordings of her conversing — or even repeating the simplest of phrases — in German at all. We haven’t even yet acknowledged the unreliability of data sources, collected at different times by different institutions.     24 May 2017. A UGE bore!," Midler tweeted, referring to Melania by her public awareness campaign's name. With varying estimates of around 118 million native speakers, the last spot on the list goes to… Lahnda, a Pakistani macrolanguage that primarily includes Western Punjabi! The first lady claims to speak five languages, which fact-checking site Snopes points out, is hard to disprove. “Wouldn’t she want to show sort of how classy she is, how she’s this first First Lady in a long time to be fluent in all these languages.”, JUST IN: Melania Trump snub: Why FLOTUS savagely rejected Donald's date request. First lady Melania Trump speaks five languages fluently: Slovenian, English, French, Italian, and German.

The 50-year-old Slovenian immigrant is not an illegal alien either. He is currently based in Delhi, working with disadvantaged children to address environmental issues through film, radio and storytelling. Almost all of the 128 million native Japanese speakers live in Japan — certainly the most highly geographically concentrated of all the languages on this list. She came to the U.S. in the late ’90s, received an Einstein Visa in 2001 and became a U.S. citizen in 2006. Conspiracies are often in the eye of the beholder. I completely agree!" Japanese boasts two distinct writing systems, hiragana and katakana, as well making extensive use of Chinese Kanji characters. "She says it feels like just yesterday they were at their first convention.

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