What foreign languages does CAF know?

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I speak Cat and have a basic knowledge of Dog, though it can be very hard to perfect, as dialects vary considerably from one breed to another.

Some day I’d like to learn Baby, but right now I don’t feel a pressing need for it.
 
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I don’t know, sometimes in the United States when we talk about the language of Scotland, to differentiate it from the Irish language, we say Scottish Gaelic. They could be referring to Scottish Gaelic.
 
That is also correct, however the Scots in the highlands also tend to call their languange Gaelic
 
I’m about to be taking my fourth semester of college Spanish.

Yo como un lapiz.
 
I’m sure your dentist wont be pleased to hear that…or your gastroenterologist, for that matter…
 
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I can read and write Russian Cyrillic, but don’t speak a language that requires it. So basically, I just write in English in Cyrillic.
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I speak Russian and find it painful and confusing to read transliterated Russian. I imagine it would be the same in reverse. You should learn Russian. though. It is a great language. with grammar that is confusing until it all suddenly makes sense. Except aspect. I still don’t get aspect very well.

I can sort of get by in simple Spanish conversation and I can read it fairly well. I can also manage to read simple Latin.
 
I had a book to learn Latin that a friend of mine gave me, and also another one that I think I got from my mother. I was letting a lady who taught an Episcopalian Sunday school borrow it, and I never saw it again.
 
Lol nope. I am the child of a Puerto Rican and a Sicilian/Neapolitan and grew up in Staten Island, NY.
 
Actually, though you are probably aware of this, the term “Irish” is used among linguists and politicians to differentiate the language from Scottish Gaelic, which is typically referred to simply as “Gaelic”. The Constitution of Ireland proclaims “The Irish language as the national language is the first official language” (article 8.1).
 
Oh ok. My father in law is Sicilian who emigrated to South America before coming to the US so that influenced my guess. He has nephews and nieces who grew up in South America and speak Sicilian and Spanish.
 
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Afrikaans first language with school and so on. Half my family English with Grandma on my dad’s side born in the UK. Studied in English and “work life” pretty much English.

I have a very good understanding of Dutch and also had quite a few courses in German which I feel very comfortable with.

Lately trying Polish again as that is my wife’s language but it is not that easy. Maybe some day.
 
I would imagine, with a background in Afrikaans, Dutch might be fairly easy to learn. To be honest with you, I’ve met a lot of people from Afrikaans speaking areas, and they all speak English.
 
Learning languages and mathematics keep the mind sharp. You can Google how polyglots learn…fascinating.

I have a basic understanding of German. I like it because there are so many materials available to learn it.

I would learn an African langauge.
 
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