Watch Pete Buttigieg say 'good morning' in 7 languages

 Pete Buttigieg.
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Pete Buttigieg is a candidate of many talents, and he's certainly getting the chance to show them off.

Throughout his 2020 Democratic campaign, the South Bend, Indiana mayor has often substituted English for one of the seven other languages he reportedly knows. There's an example of him speaking Norwegian with a news outlet from that country in late March, and he answered a full question in Italian at a news conference on Wednesday. But if you wanted further proof that he can at least hold a basic conversation in seven languages, he served it up to Good Morning America on Thursday.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.