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What 5 languages did the Shah of Iran spe

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jaliyah
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 Message 1 of 11
24 January 2012 at 5:45am | IP Logged 
Persian, French, English, and?

I hear maybe German was one of them... what else?
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napoleon
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 Message 2 of 11
24 January 2012 at 4:20pm | IP Logged 
Arabic too, probably.
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jaliyah
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 Message 3 of 11
25 January 2012 at 1:59am | IP Logged 
Hmmm... I'm pretty sure it was NOT Arabic.
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Makrasiroutioun
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 Message 4 of 11
28 January 2012 at 7:16am | IP Logged 
Persian, French, English, Arabic, Turkish - my guess.
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 Message 5 of 11
28 January 2012 at 12:30pm | IP Logged 
Pahlavi. Obviously.
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KimG
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 Message 6 of 11
28 January 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged 
I looked up info about the swiss boarding school he whent to. There he would have learned French and English in addition to whatever subject he'd study, possibly his own language.
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jaliyah
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 Message 7 of 11
29 January 2012 at 10:42am | IP Logged 
Well, never mind... I'm pretty sure I know the answer:

Persian
French
German
English, and finally, I'm pretty sure,
Azeri (Azerbaijani)

If anyone KNOWS differently, and can link to a source, great, I'd love to hear it, but please, no more wild guesses like "Arabic"... please!
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vonPeterhof
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 Message 8 of 11
29 January 2012 at 2:26pm | IP Logged 
Given his Western education and the rather strained relations between Iran and the Arab countries I wouldn't be surprised to hear that he didn't speak Arabic, but I wouldn't call expecting a monarch of a Muslim country to have at least a rudimentary command of Arabic a "wild guess".
zenmonkey wrote:
Pahlavi. Obviously.

BADUM-TISH!

Edited by vonPeterhof on 29 January 2012 at 2:27pm



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