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by pinkpiggies on September 5th, 2006
Pope Benedict can speak ten languages,including English, French, Italian, and German fluently.
Pope John Paul II spoke 8 languages fluently. Polish, Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.
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That is cool, I didn't know that
by Mr. McClister on September 5th, 2006
thanks for the answer pinkpiggies. =) i was arguing with a friend of mine. He said that the pope could speak 50-60 and I didn't believe him.
by davoomac on September 5th, 2006
I can speak and write fluently 6 languages (English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Spanish) and I have a conversational level in the my 7th language (Russian). I learn 4 of them in 3 years by living abroad... and I'm 27. This means that proportionally when I'll be 72 I'll speack 67 languages (do the math).... in the meanwhile I have sex and enjoy life. So you don't need to be a pope to speak several languages.
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese are so similar that once you learn one of them you can learn the others in 3 months without studying it. For French in one year you speak it very well and then it gets better with time...
A quick tip to learn a foreign language? find a girlfriend and that's it.
by samueleJames on December 2nd, 2009
Pope Jan Pawel II spoke 13 languages: Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Russian, Croatian, Esperanto, Ancient Greek and Latin as well as his native Polish.
by atta.buffett on May 1st, 2011