Portuguese party leader speaking German in his electoral defeat last Sunday. Does he speak good German.

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1. Yes his German is really good in this short video

2. It’s very good, but what he is saying is not really complicated, so I wouldn’t judge his ability to speak the language well on that short clip. But in this video, it’s flawless. (little bit of an accent, but who cares)

3. Yes, nearly accentfree he sounds like he’s from Rhineland-Palatinate with the dialect from there.

4. According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Rio) he studied at the Colégio Alemão do Porto (German School of Porto), so that may explain why.

5. As a Portuguese that also speaks German he does it really well. In all honesty he went to the German school in Porto so this is not some fringe event.

6. PORTUGALQUARALHO

7. Wow holy shit im impressed

8. Why is he speaking german? Im confused 😀

9. He’s better than I am… Maybe he should get an IT job in Germany and I should be president of Portugal?

   Or do you need Portuguese for that? That would be a problem.

10. At least as far as I can judge from this video, he speaks nearly flawless german, good enough to not be immeadently recognised as a foreigner in Germany.

11. “Dr. Rui Rio, não percebo alemão”

12. It is actually very good

13. It’s quite astonishing how good he speaks it, of course he has an accent but everything else is extremely good

14. Voll der rheinländische Einschlag, ansonsten tadelloses deutsch😉

15. This is also another speech in a german congress:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C-QIkLBOYY

16. I’m more impressed, that the sign language interpreter also seems to understand him 🙂

17. yeah really good very confident with a slight accent, though he repeats his 4-5 words sentence.

18. What is his political orientation?

19. haha I like Portugal, CDU only has 4,3 %

20. Ja

21. If you wanna know more about his German :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C-QIkLBOYY

22. pretty good tbh. You realise hes no native, but its quite good.

23. Honestly, the average German does not speak more clearly or more sophisticated than he does. Citizenship granted ✅

24. Fantastic German. The accent sounds a little like Jean-Claude Juncker/Luxemburgish accent. But Portuguese and Letzeburgisch have a similar sound to them.

25. yes, he is obviously fluent and can speak fast without having to think about vocabulary etc.

    It’s not “school German”, but he obviously has had lots of “live practice”.

    (Haha, sorry for my English, not my native language. The president’s German is probably a lot better than my English, hahaha)

26. He speaks it quite well.. – “A *slight foreign-accent*, is ok/mandatory” – I guess. 😉

27. Wow, very good german!

28. Ja, tut er!

29. Impressive. His grammar is not perfect, but his accent is really good.

30. Pretty good German although it’s very brief!

31. Sounds excellent to be honest.

32. Ja 10/10 sogar mit Dialekt👌👍🏻

33. He is a fluent german speaker, impressive!

34. His German is way above average for a non native as far as one can tell from this Clip. A friend of mine lives here since 2 years and his German is worse.

35. Accented, but probably pretty fluent.

36. His voice speaks german, but his hands still speak portuguese.

37. Native German speaker here. His German is good. Slight accent, and he repeats himself, but very decent.