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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 3047593, member: 81887&quot;]English is my native language, and the only other language I&#039;ve learned at all well is Spanish.&nbsp; I can also more-or-less stumble through written Italian or French, if the vocabulary and grammar is simple and I have a lot of time.&nbsp; I can also recognize a lot of Latin words, usually through their cognates in modern Romance languages or English, but never studied Latin grammar.&nbsp; In order to read coin legends, I&#039;ve learned the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, and Chinese and Arabic numbers (the forms used in Arabic-speaking countries, which are different from the Western &quot;Arabic&quot; numerals).&nbsp; Recently I&#039;ve been learning the Pahlavi alphabet to read Sasanian coins, and trying to get the rudiments of Arabic to read at least the simpler Islamic coins like Umayyad and Abbasid dirhams.&nbsp; I am still not really comfortable in any language other than English, and I have nothing but respect for anyone who is able to speak multiple languages fluently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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