• Being a devout missionary, Republican Mitt Romney's dexterity with foreign languages
revolves around French and Swahili; two languages in which he can express himself quite out of the
ordinary.

• Romney has exceptional fluency in French and is known to have picked up the language during
his 30 month mission in France for the Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormon
missionaries often learned new languages while on their respective missions. During his
two-and-a-half year sojourn through Paris, Romney excelled in French.  In fact, Romney's three years
of French class at the exclusive Cranbrook school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan had made him more
fluent than his peers.

• Voicing his thoughts on Barack Obama's embarrassment over ignorance of foreign languages
and being able to simply say 'Merci beaucoup' while traveling across Europe, Romney smiled, "Well,
I'm proud to say I can say a little bit more than Merci beaucoup, and I think a lot of other
Americans can, too. I know our kids in many schools across the country go to class and learn foreign
languages."

• Romney is basically of the opinion that America's concern need not be focused on whether we
can speak French or any other foreign language. On the other hand, America needs to be able to "keep
up with the world in math, computer science and other sciences."

• There are reports that state Romney also speaks Swahili though his level of fluency in the
language is yet to be ascertained. The records do not state where and how exactly he picked up the
language. 

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