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Fluent in both English and Scots obviously. Well I'd like to think I am but I occasionally make the odd slip up and use Scots grammar or vocabulary when conversing with non-Scots speakers.
Given my current living situation I'm quite dependent on my abilities in French, and have managed to hold a few conversations in the language though these are brief and mostly restricted to speaking with shop keepers. I achieved a '1' on my French Standard Grade, technically making me one of the most competent 15-year-olds in French living in Scotland at the time, but a lot of the knowledge is now gone. I can read the language to quite a high standard but the largest challenge I face day-to-day is the sheer rapidness of native French speakers, who speak so quickly that their words slur together and become indecipherable, yesterday I had to ask for the price of a bottle of juice three times before I could understand the guy was saying 'un dinar et trois cent millimes', simply because he wasn't pronouncing 'trois' slowly enough.
I know a few words in Arabic, but they're mostly useless outside of being courteous.
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