Obama complained to Argentina that Americans are clueless with poor foreign language skills

[James Moore]

Obama complained to Argentina that Americans are clueless with poor foreign language skills | BizPac Review

Getting away with impeachable offenses, holding him to his own standard and not America's makes it easy for him (anyone) to destroy America. America(ns) did nothing to deserve this. Such a shame how shallow people in position of representation have become held to a standard of their own. Policies make everyone and thing into what anti-Americans with authority want where cowards of politics lead everyone to follow (by force of policy) .

First antiAmerican president? No. The first anti American that became president in the most sinister way possible...and with a lot of help beyond our ability but within expected duty of elected officials to stop!

 

[HenryBHough]

T'is true that Our Kenyan Emperor is, Himself, multi-lingual.

Fluent in both Gibberish and Bullshit.

 

[daws101]

more proof of conservative fact phobia.

 

[Compost]

Improvement of foreign language skills could begin in grade school by taking class time away from learning masturbation techniques and instead use that time to study a foreign language.

 

[easyt65]

Why the hell is anyone surprised? It's not like he tried to hide any of this! Obama declared he wanted to 'fundamentally change' the US, Michelle was never proud of her country, Obama went on his apology tour after being elected, he aided Mexican Drug Cartels and terrorists, flooded the country with illegals and soon to be refugees/terrorists, mocked Americans from abroad, just agreed with a communist dictator that America is bad, and instead of advocating democracy just told the world that Communism / Socialism / fascism - whatever...it's ALL good.



Wake the hell up!

 

[Staidhup]

OK, enough already, we know the pretender in chief is a babbling fool why the hell grant this idiot the courtesy of following his every move and verbal nonsense. Foreign policy conducted through weakness and capitulation is foreign policy ruled by fear. What he failed to understand is leadership and respect are earned not bestowed on cowards and weak spineless fools that happen to be elected by a collation of nonproductive takers looking for a free ride.

 

[The VOR]

Obama complained to Argentina that Americans are clueless with poor foreign language skills | BizPac Review

He would have been more accurate had he said that most Americans are clueless, with poor English language skills; forget about actually learning and being able to speak a foreign language.

But then again, considering the dubious source, It's very likely he said no such thing.

 

[WillMunny]

I know this is taboo, but I wish Obama (not just Obama but all these snobby, elitist, American-hating cocksuckers, American or foreign) would contract whichever form of cancer is the most painful. Since Typhoid Barry is a walking cancer in every metaphorical way, I think it's appropriate for physical cancer to match up with that THING in the WH. There doesn't exist a living thing I detest more. Not even the Chef-Boyardee-looking Pope Frannie-Foot-Fetish-Faggot who defended the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

 

[The Rabbi]

Obama thinks ISIS is the JV team. Obama thinks there are 57 states plus two more. Remind me how many foreign languages Obama speaks (Bush spoke fluent Spanish btw)

 

[ABikerSailor]

You know, there is a bit of truth to this, and I've experienced it firsthand.

Whenever I went overseas, one of the very first things that I did was get a phrase book for whatever country we happened to be in. I would take that phrase book with me and instead of going up to a person and asking them in slow English if they spoke English (like most of the people on the boat did), I would walk up with my phrase book and try to speak to them in their language. After all, I was the foreigner there.

What I found out later, was that over 80 percent of the people overseas actually DO speak English, and many of them are happy to practice their English with you, but they like it when you make an effort to communicate in their language. Usually, they would let me stumble around for a couple of minutes, but then would cheerfully tell me they spoke English, and ask if I preferred to speak that.

I also saw many of my shipmates go looking for places like Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King and McDonalds instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to sample food that isn't known over here in the USA, or would cost them a lot of money at a fancy eatery, because foreign cuisine is generally only served at high dollar places (at least the good stuff).

I also saw them making fun of people over there for doing things that Americans considered "strange" or "unusual", like Middle Eastern men walking down the street holding hands if they were friends, simply because they didn't take time to learn about some of the customs that were there.

No, sorry to say, but very few Americans are interested in speaking to someone in another country in their native language, or even learning about some of the customs of that country.

Got over 20 years of experience with that, and saw it first hand quite often.

 

[daws101]

Not learning another language or 2 is the perfect example of the dumbing down of this country.
Also it's one of the prime reason for the term ugly American.

 

[The Rabbi]

Not learning another language or 2 is the perfect example of the dumbing down of this country.
Also it's one of the prime reason for the term ugly American.

How many languages do you speak?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

T'is true that Our Kenyan Emperor is, Himself, multi-lingual.

Fluent in both Gibberish and Bullshit.

Corpse men?

 

[Arianrhod]

Americans are the only species who are PROUD of the fact that they only speak one language and, if we were to judge them by their posts on USMB, they have a serious problem with even English as a First Language.

Trick question: Which is correct: "definately" or "definitely"?

Another trick question: Which is correct: "I'm smarter then you" or "I'm smarter than you"?

QED.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Not learning another language or 2 is the perfect example of the dumbing down of this country.
Also it's one of the prime reason for the term ugly American.

How many languages do you speak?

You don't have to be multi lingual to avoid the term "ugly American". All you really have to do is put a phrase book in your pocket and use it when you go out. It's not being able to speak another language fluently that gets you around better, it's simply making the effort to try that does. Like I said, over 80 percent of the people not from the USA speak English.

I never learned to speak any language fluently, but I do know some phrases in Italian, Spanish, Greek, and a couple of others. Learned them from using the phrase book to get around while I was overseas, and some of them like "please", "thank you", and "where is", are some that I memorized because I used them so often.

Walking up to someone overseas and asking in a loud, slow voice "Do you speak English", and waiting for them to respond in English is how you get labeled an ugly American.

 

[francoHFW]

Americans are the only species who are PROUD of the fact that they only speak one language and, if we were to judge them by their posts on USMB, they have a serious problem with even English as a First Language.

Trick question: Which is correct: "definately" or "definitely"?

Another trick question: Which is correct: "I'm smarter then you" or "I'm smarter than you"?

QED.

Also the Brits...Tories only behind the GOP at being ugly...

 

[daws101]

Not learning another language or 2 is the perfect example of the dumbing down of this country.
Also it's one of the prime reason for the term ugly American.

How many languages do you speak?

3 .
I'm also fluent in raging dumbass, your native tongue!

 

[Meathead]

T'is true that Our Kenyan Emperor is, Himself, multi-lingual.

Fluent in both Gibberish and Bullshit.

He do ebonics, when he wants.

 

[WildBillKelsoe]

You know, there is a bit of truth to this, and I've experienced it firsthand.

Whenever I went overseas, one of the very first things that I did was get a phrase book for whatever country we happened to be in. I would take that phrase book with me and instead of going up to a person and asking them in slow English if they spoke English (like most of the people on the boat did), I would walk up with my phrase book and try to speak to them in their language. After all, I was the foreigner there.

What I found out later, was that over 80 percent of the people overseas actually DO speak English, and many of them are happy to practice their English with you, but they like it when you make an effort to communicate in their language. Usually, they would let me stumble around for a couple of minutes, but then would cheerfully tell me they spoke English, and ask if I preferred to speak that.

I also saw many of my shipmates go looking for places like Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King and McDonalds instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to sample food that isn't known over here in the USA, or would cost them a lot of money at a fancy eatery, because foreign cuisine is generally only served at high dollar places (at least the good stuff).

I also saw them making fun of people over there for doing things that Americans considered "strange" or "unusual", like Middle Eastern men walking down the street holding hands if they were friends, simply because they didn't take time to learn about some of the customs that were there.

No, sorry to say, but very few Americans are interested in speaking to someone in another country in their native language, or even learning about some of the customs of that country.

Got over 20 years of experience with that, and saw it first hand quite often.

That could be said about any nationality. Very few illegals are interested in learning English.

When I was a kid, a German couple stopped at our local store to get directions and it's a good thing my grandma happened to be there, because they didn't speak a lick of English and didn't even have a phrase book.

 

[daws101]

You know, there is a bit of truth to this, and I've experienced it firsthand.

Whenever I went overseas, one of the very first things that I did was get a phrase book for whatever country we happened to be in. I would take that phrase book with me and instead of going up to a person and asking them in slow English if they spoke English (like most of the people on the boat did), I would walk up with my phrase book and try to speak to them in their language. After all, I was the foreigner there.

What I found out later, was that over 80 percent of the people overseas actually DO speak English, and many of them are happy to practice their English with you, but they like it when you make an effort to communicate in their language. Usually, they would let me stumble around for a couple of minutes, but then would cheerfully tell me they spoke English, and ask if I preferred to speak that.

I also saw many of my shipmates go looking for places like Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King and McDonalds instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to sample food that isn't known over here in the USA, or would cost them a lot of money at a fancy eatery, because foreign cuisine is generally only served at high dollar places (at least the good stuff).

I also saw them making fun of people over there for doing things that Americans considered "strange" or "unusual", like Middle Eastern men walking down the street holding hands if they were friends, simply because they didn't take time to learn about some of the customs that were there.

No, sorry to say, but very few Americans are interested in speaking to someone in another country in their native language, or even learning about some of the customs of that country.

Got over 20 years of experience with that, and saw it first hand quite often.

That could be said about any nationality. Very few illegals are interested in learning English.

When I was a kid, a German couple stopped at our local store to get directions and it's a good thing my grandma happened to be there, because they didn't speak a lick of English and didn't even have a phrase book.

Don't you mean stone tablet?