Interestingly, his French is said to be poor in these books until he overwinters in a French household, but stories set earlier in his career have him quite fluent and establish that he learned it from an expatriate tutor as a boy—evidently as his service took him hither and thither, his French skills rusted and his Spanish learned later during a two-year spell as a prisoner of war improved.
Bridger: Can you read it? Ho Sa, a Chinese soldier who speaks decent Mongolian, may also qualify.
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She also speaks Basque but is not fluent.
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Most impressively, he knew French well enough that after moving to , he wrote his works first in French and then translated them into English.