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Kiwi Crowned French Scrabble Champ, Doesn't Speak French (uk.news.yahoo.com)

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très bien

EDIT: This article was originally from 2015, my mistake in posting it now.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago

Depends how much of the dictionary he memorised! I'd think memorising a dictionary covet to cover would be more work than learning to speak a conversational level of French, but I guess he didn't actually have to memorise the whole dictionary, just enough to have a decent number of words to play in scrabble