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Doesnβt speak a language I know.
You're only friends with people who can speak the same multiple languages or someone who speaks the only language you know?
βAβ language, not βallβ languages. The point being I canβt see how to become close friends without being able to talk to them.
Exactly which is why I asked for clarification. Your wording can be read as "I speak English and French but this guy speaks English and Spanish so I won't get to know them because they don't know a language that I do"
That would be silly π