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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by ImaCatholic2 on August 19th, 2007
Pope Benedict XVI, in addition to his native German, fluently speaks Italian, French, English, Spanish and Latin, and has a knowledge of Portuguese. He can read Ancient Greek and biblical Hebrew. http://www.usccb.org/comm/popebenedictxvi/benedictfacts.shtml
At the end of his speech on Christmas, the pope delivered Christmas greetings in 33 languages. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0507335.htm
With love in Christ.
by Wickels on August 19th, 2007
He speaks ten languages including:
German
Italian
English
ecclesiastical Latin
I couldn't find the others, though. :-( How are you going to say he speaks 10 and only give four of them, huh?
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Ratzinger.html
by hugobrown on August 19th, 2007
10 languages, although the source does not state which
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4445279.stm
by Charmaine Jay on November 17th, 2006
The main language the pope needs to speak is truth.
by Roger Kovaciny on November 17th, 2006
In the Reader's Digest article or feature condensation about John Paul II, it said 20.
by pinkpiggies on September 5th, 2006
I could not find the other one, who holds the world record for speaking the most languages and i did try, Sorry )O:
by Charmaine Jay on November 17th, 2006
He has 2 faces so i think at least 2
Is the pope stuck in medieval times? He adheres to a very old book of law, runs around dressed like back in the day, lives in a castle, has servants, ... You name it.
by StupidGirl on November 12th, 2009
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Could the Antichrist be the Pope?
by N I C K on October 31st, 2009
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Does the pope get paid or does get have an expense account...what if he wanted a pepsi could he afford one...or does he have to ask?
by TallJasperMan on November 25th, 2009
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Anyone here want to be the pope and what would you do? Remember there are no limits once you are the pope!
by StupidGirl on November 20th, 2009
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What does the pope do for fun?
by CakeOrDeath on November 1st, 2009
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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