= Ciro Santilli's natural languages skills
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* <English (language)>: Cambridge CPE grade B in 2004. Proficient, with minor defects in collocation/pronunciation. Learned from formal courses and from <Ciro Santilli's biography>[living in the UK for a few months when he was 10].
* French: TCF grade C2 in 2011. Proficient, with a bit more defects than English. <Ciro Santilli's formal education>[Studied and lived in France].
* <Brazilian> Portuguese: <Ciro Santilli's biography>[Native speaker]
* <Chinese (language)>: see https://github.com/cirosantilli/china-dictatorship/tree/df0852b22e585785d734ec69719eddf63f9676a5\#do-you-speak-chinese
When asked, Ciro likes to say that he speaks something between 1.5 and 3.5 languages in total, depending on how you count, because Portuguese, French and English are 99.99% the same, and Chinese is completely different but Ciro only knows about 50% of it if counted optimistically.