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5. I am REALLY glad that my nephew has moved out of Kyiv!!
Tue May 26, 2026, 05:55 AM
Yesterday

He came home a couple of months ago. He is now in France taking an intensive French language course. Several years ago, he worked for the US Embassy in Tunis, and expected to get by fine with his Arabic. He had studied Arabic in college, and can both speak and write it. He was dismayed when he got to Tunis and found that, according to him, all anyone would speak was French, and there was hardly anyone who would speak in Arabic, whether to him or even to each other.

I am not aware of any plans he has to return to Tunis, but Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon and much of Western Africa does speak French. He has been stationed in northern Nigeria before, so he is not a stranger to the area, diverse though it may be. He did learn some Ukrainian while he was there, but not enough to be fully conversational, and at any rate, I doubt he has any immediate plans to return.

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