The least linguistically talented African I’ve worked with was a Kenyan who spoke his own tribal tongue, English, Italian, and French, all fluently.
That’s pretty amazing. I guess some people are especially gifted when it comes to language.
(One of my planned retirement projects is to learn Italian. I don’t know why I want to learn it; I studied French and Spanish in school - forgot most of the French, and beyond enough Spanish to survive here in the barrio, I kind of lost interest.
But with Italian, I’m just prompted from inside; it seems like a beautiful language.)