That unpossible!
I’m not sure about the English.
I speak (for various rankings of “speak”) a reasonable number, I think 6 or 7* where I am capable of conversation at a basic level.
I do know a large number of insults in each language which, as much as I distain Melania, I would choose to direct to the Idiot In Chief.
Fila da Puta, Donald.
* Mozambique and Angola have dialects that are mutually intelligible with continental Portuguese, but it is bit challenging as a non native Portuguese speaker to work out the accents and variations. Brazil was pretty challenging, I started pidgen and sign-language, because their Portuguese is far more pure than mine.
I am fluent in English.
Adequate in Chishona
Can maintain in French, and Portuguese.
Beginner level Bahasa Indonesia, though flag @CairoCarol for misnaming the language again, but that’s what I was told it was called. Apparently Indonesian is the term.
But I like the Bahasa term, it refers to to “the language of”.
In the sense of knocking over the chess pieces, pooping publically, and strutting around victoriously, he speaks pigeon English.
Like all orcs, his native tongue is the Black Speech.
There’s no evidence that anybody has been able to teach him anything.
For the benefit of anyone unfamiliar with past discussion on this matter, I have pointed out that in Indonesian, “bahasa” just means language, so saying one speaks Bahasa is technically saying “I speak language.”
Anyway, it’s a losing battle and, in English at least (and probably other languages), the word Bahasa is becoming synonymous with Indonesian/Malay.
No big deal. Language purists generally lose in the end (and deservedly so, IMHO).
In fact, autocorrect here wanted to insist that the word “bahasa” is capitalized, so clearly it is following the “German/Spanish/Bahasa/Italian etc.” rule.
In other words - Tidak app-apa, Mas Scudsucker!
Honey, no one can teach him anything.
One more outrageous thing in the daily roster of outrageous things. 
The dude hasn’t been able to learn English despite living all his life in an English-speaking environment and you want him to learn the more complex Spanish in his late seventies? At the first complex verb conjugation he would have a stroke and… Oh! I like your plan
It’s amazing that this is partly the result of tremendous jealousy over the popularity of a black predecessor. And also incredulity on his part that he couldn’t just step in, bark a few orders, and somehow he’d be more successful, by sheer force of will. That inferiority complex of his will be the ruination of us all.
And the lengths our society goes to coddle these mediocre nepo babies staggers belief
¡Ojalá hubiera tenido uno!
Try that one, trumpybrain.
(hoping I remember my past subjunctive conditional correctly…)
Perfectly! It can also be “Ojalá hubiese tenido uno” both forms are correct.
I like to imagine Trump trying to understand a word like “Comuniquemoselo” (let us communicate it (masculine it) to them) and the difference with “comunicasela” (you communicate it (femenine it) to them)
Gender in foreign languages would definitely have him stumped. He’d probably use an Executive Order to outlaw gender–and then deport the offenders.
And not just more successful, but also that he’d be immediately obeyed without question, no matter what orders he gave. Because that’s all he’s ever done. the Trump companies aren’t publicly traded, so he’s the absolute boss. He doesn’t even have to worry about shareholders. He’s simply not used to a system where other people are allowed to have their own opinions, and the right to act on those opinions, regardless of what Trump wants. So he has no idea how to get people to agree with him if they don’t already agree with him.
And then demand that Wienerschnitzel go back to Der Wienerschnitzel. (Not withstanding that Wienerschnitzel sells (the American version of) Vienna sausages, not Vienna cutlets.)
This always drove my advisor (who was from Germany) insane. How could they name a restaurant chain “Weinerschnitzel” and not sell Wienerschnitzel there?
Really? They weren’t around where I grew up, and they only just started opening a few around here.
I just assumed with a name like that they sold schnitzel but they actually sell wurst? What the actual heck?
I did grow up with them. (♫ At Der happy Wienerschnitzel! Yum, yum! Hot dog! ♫) It’s typical American ignorance. We got Wienerwurst (Vienna sausage), and shortened it (as we, not uniquely, do) to ‘wiener’. So instead of calling them ‘Vienna sausages’, by the early 20th Century we were calling them ‘Viennas’. And people had heard of Wiener Schnitzel; only Americans thought ‘wiener’ meant ‘hot dog’. So there you go.
Not as bad as a place in Bellingham that is no longer in business. They couldn’t even spell ‘wiener’ correctly.
It’s because the “Weiner–” part of the name suggests hot dogs to us uncultured Americans
It’s called marketing, Hel-lo!
You truly leave me stumped. This should have been in the “interesting random fact” thread all along, where someone sensible could then post something like: “Ils sont fous, ces américans!”
But why limit it to Americans? Everybody is crazy, and look who their bosss is!
