and French in France.

“I’m not learning your language in Latin America. I will declare your continent “South America” and only the southern language can be spoken.

“I’m not speaking Latin”.

Well, maybe not an exact quote.

Not speaking Latin?

I took 2 years of Latin in high school. He never would have got through one semester.

Does that count?

That means getting the noun declensions, verb conjugations, gender endings, and noun/adjective agreement correct.

After 2 years of Latin, I took 2 years of German. Initially I thought it would be good to learn a modern language that I could speak, but ach mein Gott! German was worse grammatically. It also has 3 genders, noun declensions, verb conjugations, gender endings that change according to the grammatical role in the sentence, plus noun/adjective agreement in gender and number.

But, at least Latin noun endings indicate the gender for nearly all nouns. Not so in German. In German you have to memorize the gender of each noun with no clues from the noun ending.

Both of my mother's grandparents brought their families to the US from Germany. I swear they left in order to escape the language.

So in college, I studied Spanish.

All singular words ending in -e are feminine (die Katze, die Erde)
All words ending in -in that denote a profession are feminine (Die Arztin, die Polizistin)
All singular words ending in -chen and -lein are neuter (das Fraulein, das Madchen

IT would have helped if our teacher had tipped us off.

Those clues help, but they don't apply to words like Buch, Schiff, Gott. What about er endings? Vater, Mutter, Schwester, Kinder, Metzger? Or Milch? I remember the articles for some of those, but not all.

What really got to me, though, was how the masculine article "der" could change in another case to "die," confusing me on its gender.

I had the pronunciations down pat because of hearing older relatives speak German. The spelling did not bother me as long as it was written in English lettering. But the grammar was a nightmare. I managed to get mostly A grades, and a couple Bs, but most of the tests were written. I never felt like I'd be able to speak it well.

But that was put to the test some years later in my 30s when I was a college student. I took a Spanish seminar class which ended with a trip to NYC to visit a Spanish theater and some Spanish restaurants in Greenwich. We stayed at a hotel in Manhattan near Times Square which catered to tourists. My landlady had joined the seminar, mostly for the trip. Since we were older than the other students, we spent some of our free time in the evenings at the hotel lounge to meet other people. There were a couple groups of German tourists.

When I heard a group at a table next to us speaking German, I introduced myself to them in German, told them that my grandparents were born in Germany, and that I had learned a little German in school. I spoke slowly, searching my mind for the right words. They understood me and were patient with my efforts. They invited us to join them and insisted on buying me a beer. One of the group knew some English, so between us, with a lot of pantomiming and some sketches on bar napkins, we were able to communicate. I probably slaughtered the grammar, but they were polite enough to act like they didn't notice.

All nominative plurals take "die", regardless of gender.
So, das Madchen, die Madchen
Der Hund, die Hunde
Die Katze, die Katzen

Duolingo offers free German lessons

like die Katzen?

Also, aren't there other articles that seem to change gender from the nominative case to another case like dative or objective? I might be misremembering after 60 years past my HS classes, but it seems to me that other articles changed in confusing ways.

In 5 languages.

even the slutty escorts like her demand cash up front.......

Being President looks exhausting. Wow.

Probably not....

Yell, scream, stomp your little feet and pound your little hands. Wait until poppa Fred gives you a few more $$$ to cover your stupid antics.

I have to wonder if djt didn't have some kompromat on his father. Something that stopped Fred from treating the idjt as he did his older son (Mary Trump's father.) Perhaps djt learned this from Roy Cohn.

Reminds me of a scene in Seven Years in Tibet:
https://m.

No.

It is ignorance and arrogance.

It is a major sign of narcissism, when they expect everyone and everything to bow to their whim.

It needs to stop.

Watching television, interfering in sports, golfing on the taxpayers dime, fundraising while starting an unnecessary war, and sending out late night social media posts.

focus on being the greatest President in U.S. history?

His "giving up" golf cost the taxpayers $200 million in his 1st term, and he is already up to $110 million in his second term.

different one.

. . . but Trump is a disgrace to the US.

...crude, common, crass, coarse, churlish and cruel.

And my neologism - crass hole

Inarticulate, incoherent, infantile ...

The first Ho speaks dozens of languages. Just not English. The only language she needed for trump, CASH.

God help us!

to just normalize anything Piggy says or does.

Oh, the 'Shield Of The Americas,' and the "Board of Peace," FFS!!! They're just made up bullshit for him to grift from, like his charities, and renting his stupid ugly name, his university, his wine, his steak, etc., etc.

Jeez!!

His combined ignorance and arrogance knows no bounds.

Typical bully tactics. What a LOSER.

I think she's called Leaveit or something.

The game show host and his weekend talk show presenter can't meet karma soon enough.