[tenger]

Yes, there are a few of us cryptolinguists on FR. Most of the training was language training was probably in Monterrey CA, which could be part of her problem (i.e., San Francisco liberal mecca). She learned it there or perhaps at Ft. Meade.

Dari and Farsi, if I recall correctly, are very similar languages to learn (as is Tajik). I want to say it's like British English and American English but someone more well versed will undoubtedly set me straight if I'm wrong.

[Reily]

I am told its more like Russian/Ukrainian or Spanish/Portuguese.

[MayflowerMadam]

Rush was saying it’s all the same language. Difference between the three is accent and dialect.

Melania speaks seven different languages. Does the media ever report this?

[hanamizu]

Dari and Farsi are pretty much the same languages. Pashto is different. I learned (a very little Farsi/Dari when I was a Peace Corps trainee back in the late 60s bound for Afghanistan). I was “deselected” a couple of days before we were to leave—which was a stroke of luck for me since I got to avoid two enormous gamma globulin shots and the amoebic dysentery that everyone brought back from Afghanistan a month later. The whole “class” came back. One reason is we were taught Farsi, but they placed them in Pashto areas. Not only is Pashto different from Farsi it turned out that Pashto didn’t like being spoken to in Farsi/Dari.