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...Critics, however, have been skeptical about the results. "The film has been made for audiences ranging from the Spanish coast to the Urals, passing through the Acropolis," wrote La Croix. "The result is a flat dialogue, jokes which are barely funny and a sluggish pace." Le Monde described it as a "vacuous gigantic stewpot," L'Express called it "French cinema's first bling-bling film," while Libération said it was a "tragic potion...
...course, if a candidate can actually speak the language, then there's no problem. Senator Chris Dodd is a fluent Spanish speaker from his years in the Peace Corps, and Senator Tom Harkin - who has a deaf brother - was able to address the Democratic National Convention in sign language. But it's a high bar, and more often than not, candidates can't clear...
During that same election and in years since, George W. Bush's frequent use of Spanish in speeches has made news. Bush's proficiency may pass muster under No Child Left Behind, but according to former Mexican President Vicente Fox, it's an embarrassing "grade-school"-level Spanish...
This year, the candidates are focusing on Latinos, and brushing up on their Spanish. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney both released Spanish language television ads in Florida that concluded with each of them stumbling through the Spanish version of "I approve this message." On the Democratic side, Barack Obama does the same in his ads, though he has yet to find an audience to use his fluent Indonesian. Both the Hillary Clinton and Obama campaigns have recently released Spanish-language ads, with Obama's ad featuring a shot of Ted Kennedy, who just endorsed the Illinois Senator...
...Clinton supporters should not fret: bilingualism does not correlate with electability. The most fluent Spanish speaker of all the major modern presidential nominees was Michael Dukakis, and there's no misunderstanding what the American electorate had to say about...