"Тим знает итальянский и украинский, хотя он из Испании."

Translation: Tim knows Italian and Ukrainian, even though he is from Spain.

[kpagcha]

Change Тим for Хосе or Хуан please :) there are no Tims here in spain :D

[maiagus]

in fact they have a list of government-sanctioned spanish names.

[kpagcha]

Can you please share that list?

[usmcfunkymunky]

I think he was being sarcastic :) I thought it was pretty funny too

[Kukulu1]

It was this way not long ago. From 1938 to 1978 only Spanish names included in the "Santoral Católico" were admitted. Here is the law that ruled it (under "ministerio de justicia"): https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1938/577/A07435-07436.pdf

[charlotteeharvey]

I love random trivia and this strangely helped make an otherwise bad day a bit better, thank you.

[meganmarianne]

Should 'Tim knows Italian and Ukrainian, even though he is Spanish" be acceptable?

[KippieDaoud]

он из испании means he is from spain and he is spanish/a spaniard would be он испанец

[hr0201]

It should be "even though he is from Spain"

[ArcticXerxes]

Didn't think "Tim" was a Spanish name

[javialacarga]

I think very few Spanish natives speak both Italian and Ukrainian, almost no Spanish natives are named Tim, and definitely not a single native matches both of those requirements at the same time.

[.untouchable]

"Tim can speak..." should be also accepted in my opinion.

[cptchuckle]

That has to be "Тим умеет говорить"

[Alexroseajr]

lol didn't allow my answer because I put "he's" instead of "he is"