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Ian Walker
I believe he can understand it very well, he just isn't comfortable speaking it.
Tbf I presume if you spend 7 years in any foreign country you'd pick up a language to some extent.
Your right, my dad picked up some Welsh in the 6 months he was stationed there in the war and was fluent in Italian after being there almost 2 years and that was without any formal training.