[psuter]

More counterintuitive Scrabble facts: the French Scrabble world champion is from New Zealand and doesn't speak French.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/...

[vijayr]

He memorized the entire scrabble French dictionary in a matter of weeks!

[YeGoblynQueenne]

To be fair, he can now speak French words. He just has no idea what they mean.

[Grue3]

I doubt he can speak them, per se. French pronounciation can be quite tricky.

[hollander]

He probably can speak them, but maybe it will cause the opponents to start chuckling about his bad pronunciation. This would probably only help him as it makes him look stupid.

[StavrosK]

Eh, it's much less tricky than English.

[malz]

touché.