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He learnt to speak English, German, French, and Spanish as a child, and ultimately came to speak thirty-two languages with varying degrees of fluency. [103] Vernon A. Walters (1917–2002), American soldier and diplomat. He spoke English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. [104]
This is a list of famous French people of British descent. Laura Cox; Lou Doillon; Henry Farman; Charlotte Gainsbourg; Antoine Hamilton; Rebecca Hampton; Jeanne Moreau; David Olivier; George Onslow; Andrew Michael Ramsay; Erik Satie; Samia Smith; Charles Waddington (philosopher) Richard Waddington; Jemima West; William Henry Waddington; Kenneth ...
English (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Germanic: 380 million 1.135 billion 1.515 billion Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 941 million 199 million 1.140 billion Hindi (excl. Urdu) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 345 million 264 million 609 million Spanish (excl. creole languages ...
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Nive Nielsen, Greenlandic singer and songwriter. This is a list of multilingual bands and artists.The band's or artist's native language is listed first. The list itself may also contain some singers from all over the world whose first language is English and ability to sing in different languages.
Franco-American Flag [citation needed]. French Americans are U.S. citizens or nationals of French descent and heritage. The majority of Franco-American families did not arrive directly from France, but rather settled French territories in the New World (primarily in the 17th and 18th centuries) before moving or being forced to move to the United States later on (see Quebec diaspora and Great ...
A couple from the French-speaking part of Belgium wanted to become naturalizedFrench citizens but found themselves with the most French of problems – a bureaucratic struggle to prove to the ...
From 1880 to the mid-20th century, Breton was banned from the French school system and children were punished for speaking it. This was similar to Britain's enforcement of English, not Welsh, being used in Welsh schools during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The situation changed in 1951 with the Deixonne Law. This law allowed Breton ...