Jefferson wasn't multi-lingual; it was a subject of interest in a film about Sally Hemmings.

Things were different in a more aristocratic age. Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke French and German well, a list to which his elder cousin Teddy added varying abilities in Spanish, Latin, Greek, Italian, and Dutch (the New York family’s ancestral tongue). James Madison could read the Old Testament in Hebrew, and Herbert Hoover spoke some Mandarin. Both Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams, an experienced diplomat, spoke more than four.
Polyglot Politicians: How Many World Leaders Speak English?
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Jefferson wasn't multi-lingual; it was a subject of interest in a film about Sally Hemmings.
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