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Dear Alan ,
It s a great pleasure for me that you like my update , I m really happy that such important personality as you do that for me ;me who is just a student in your hall of fame class
thank you gain dear friend
kindly kader

I didn't have many students fluent in Arabic as well as English. I spent my life improving my English, Latin, Italian, French--and a bit of Russian. I have no Greek, so I am not the best commenter on Milton, a fine Greek scholar. Thanks for the mention of Cervantes in Africa (Arabic?) I do recall he was imprisoned there when in the military, I believe.

you are right he was captured in Algiers and still the cave in algiers where I m living now the capital of Algeria. even Albert Camus wrote The PEST in Algeria mainly in the west city Oran .I know only three languages Arabic ,French and English I m teaching it at University and also I write novels and poems in English.

I love your modesty--ONLY three languages! Americans would not say "only" before that number of languages; in fact, they too often don't even think "only" before ONE language. And they should.
But I'm with you; I've been studying, reading Italian, French, Latin and English--and a little Russian. And I sure feel its's ONLY for me. No Chinese or Japanese, no Arabic, no Hindi, no Swahili...oh, I could go on. No Aramaic! No Greek! No Romanian--though it's close enough to Italian that I can make it out when I hear it.
Which University do you teach at? Lucky students, I say. Hope they know they are. I had a colleague, a math teacher from Algeria, excellent. This was ten years ago. I'll try to remember his name.

Yes i have to admit that I don't say "only" before I say I speak 5 languages. This must depend on the one's attitude I believe. There' s nothing wrong however.

Sorry to be late because I was outside , I do agree with you that being a polyglote is being openminded and having a lot of knowledge about other civilisations for the simple reason that studying a culture is not as to feel it in your daily life.Therefore speaking many languages is having the capacity to shift and fly free from one culture to another like a free bird.I have also an American friend who master Arabic and he still surprising me with his elloquant style.Learning languages is promoting recogntion and peace ; you are lucky americans because you have established Democracy .
your modest friend tiger

Tiger wrote: "Sorry to be late because I was outside , I do agree with you that being a polyglote is being openminded and having a lot of knowledge about other civilisations for the simple reason that studying a..."
Lovely. Well said, about flying from one culture to another. To fly or flee is the Latin fugio, fugire. "Tempus fugit" is more "Time flees" than "time flies (like a bird)."

Fede wrote: "Yes i have to admit that I don't say "only" before I say I speak 5 languages. This must depend on the one's attitude I believe. There' s nothing wrong however."

You must speak Romanian? I was shocked to discover, in my 60s, it's virtually Italian. No wonder they call it Roman-ian.