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I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I had to know at least two languages.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

I'm pretty good with languages.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

My first language is Gaelic.