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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rene_R, post: 9482853, member: 81814&quot;]Attested are English, German, French, Dutch and Spanish from witnesses; also Italian and Portuguese, according to himself (he said he picked most of those up himself, and spoke those languages fluently and could teach others); and (but that&#039;s not directly attested) Latin, Greek and Hebrew, in which his school had mandatory lessons. The school also had lessons in Old English, but it is not clear if he took those.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was looking for a position as a language teacher before he committed the robbery. The diamond merchants even employed him in that position themselves for some time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would he have had trouble picking up Ladino? I don&#039;t think so. Is there evidence that he did? Not directly, no.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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