Faria: \u201cI speak five of the modern tongues; that is to say, German, French, Italian, English, and Spanish; by the aid of ancient Greek I learned modern Greek\u2014I don\u2019t speak it so well as I could wish, but I am still trying to improve myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cImprove yourself!\u201d repeated Dant\u00e8s; \u201cwhy, how can you manage to do so?\u201d<\/p>\n
Faria: \u201cWhy, I made a vocabulary of the words I knew; turned, returned, and arranged them, so as to enable me to express my thoughts through their medium.\u00a0 I know nearly one thousand words, which is all that is absolutely necessary, although I believe there are nearly one hundred thousand in the dictionaries.\u00a0 I cannot hope to be very fluent, but I certainly should have no difficulty in explaining my wants and wishes; and that would be quite as much as I should ever require.\u201d<\/p>\n
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