What foreign languages does CAF know?

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Gaelic is the Celtic language spoken in parts of Scotland.
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Sorry, just noticed that other commenters have already made that point.
 
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I studied a year of Russian many years ago - can’t remember much now. I know minimal Polish that I tried to learn as an adult and a very little amount of Spanish.
 
I’m only fluent in English but I am learning Spanish and I know odd words or phrases in French, German, Latin, Polish, Welsh and Anglo-Saxon. Not enough for a proper conversation but I can handle buying coffee or something.
 
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I know British…
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I grew up speaking British, and American can sometimes present unforeseen difficulties. When Jimmy Carter was president, back in the seventies, I once went to an international convention of some kind where he was the guest speaker. I couldn’t understand a word he said, but luckily simultaneous translation was available. I put on my headphones and listened to his speech in French.
 
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That’s kind of like English right? I just ask, because I can understand Scots, even though I can’t speak it, because it’s kind of like English. Kind of.
 
I can speak (terribly) in Tamil. It isn’t my native language but we were expected to take a second language in school here so Tamil it was. I can read in it fluently but I don’t really understand anything. The lessons were almost traumatic since I did not understand anything and nobody in my family knew the language. It was a miracle that I managed to scrape through.
 
Hi Adam

Have you met many Afrikaans speaking people?

My Uncle lives in Jacksonville, Florida for the past 5 years. Been in the USA for 20 years. They actually have Afrikaans neighbours. It is a really bad “brain drain” my country has experienced.

The company I am working for is building the second largest Chemical Cracker plant/unit at Lake Charles in Louisiana. I am considering going there soon. Maybe one more for now.
 
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I’ve met a few. I actually grew up, partially, with a Dutch descended, , family from Southern Africa. Not South Africa, I don’t remember the country they told me that they lived in. I just know it was definitely not South Africa. They spoke primarily English though.
 
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Seriously, besides my native English, I took Spanish and Latin in HS and Polish in college.
 
Arabic, Farsi, and a reasonable amount of Russian.

My mom is Syrian and my dad’s family is Iranian and I spent a lot of time In Jordan growing up, so my accent is weird no matter what I’m speaking. lol
 
Je parle un peu Francais. Learned as an adult, no one in my family is French.

There are about three more (at least) languages I would like to learn, but unless I clone myself and then merge the two selves back together, I don’t have enough hours in my day at this point to tackle a language.
 
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