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Kiwi Crowned French Scrabble Champ, Doesn't Speak French (uk.news.yahoo.com)
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EDIT: This article was originally from 2015, my mistake in posting it now.

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[–] FloofahNZ 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He didn’t need to in order to win the Scrabble and indeed, speaking a foreign language needs a lot more than memorising a dictionary, though that in itself was a massive accomplishment.

[–] Dave 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