Steve Kaufmann
stevekauf.bsky.social
Steve Kaufmann
@stevekauf.bsky.social
Approaching my 80th year. I love family and friends, food and wine, travel and languages, and just noticing the colours that surround me. Working on Persian & Turkish right now, learning about that part of the world. Youtube lingosteve.
Why do so many in the Trump administration seem to be so stupid?
December 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This raises the question of who gets the refund if the tariffs are disallowed. Will all importers follow Costco? What about importers who were able to pass the increase onto their downstream customers? Unlike in Canada, there is no rule governing this in the US it seems.
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Just a reminder that LingQ offers Icelandic free of charge. This is also true for Ukrainian. Why are there 2 free languages on LingQ? It's a long story, two separate stories. So just go for it and start learning.
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Trump did invite the mob to violence. BBC had every right to show that as did other news outlets. Why do so many news outlets allow themselves to be bullied by Trump.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Charlie please tell the Afghan girls that all refugees have free access to LingQ to work on their language skills (over 50 languages).
I learned Farsi there. Just register and contact support at LingQ with their username and say they are Afghan refugees.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Mostly French and English with a little mandarin Chinese
October 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Why is this dishonest low IQ clown on TV so often?
September 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Trump has no idea who the previous Nobel peace prize recipients were, what they did to earn the prize and how the winners are chosen. Trump has a better chance of being on the US Ryder Cup golf team then getting a Nobel peace prize.
September 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The common theme in the Trump administration is a complete lack of morality, the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil.
August 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The problem for Canada and other countries negotiating with the US is that their chief negotiators are sycophants with no respect for the truth, and whose word cannot be trusted. They reflect the president.
July 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Per Lutnick, US wants to make everything at home & will apply punitive tariffs on all countries importing anything from China, which of course every country exporting to the US does. Protectionism was tried before, Smoot-Hawley Bill, world trade declined by 60% and depression. Brilliant.
June 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Many GOP leaders are ignorant of history. The American Revolution was part of the
“enlightenment”inspired by the classical world of Greece & Rome, opposed to the influence of the Church. Jews’ voting rights were restricted till mid 19th century.
May 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If this were a real threat to the president of US, Noem, Gabbard etc should be doing everything possible, not to publicize it, the opposite of what they’re doing.
May 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
No thanks to fortress North America scheme w/ fundamentally egotistical US. When COVID vaccines were urgently needed in Canada, EU honoured contracts & shipped to Canada. Biden blocked exports till June 2021.
May 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
While American networks highlight the fact that a majority of Americans disapprove of Trump, most foreign observers are amazed that 40 to 45% of Americans still support an incompetent immoral lunatic as President.
April 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Susan Holt is absolutely fluent in French by the way.
April 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Trump’s every word is humbug & nonsense or something more sinister. Rubio is just Trump‘s spineless echo.
April 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM