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Which languages did Robert Burns study besides English?

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Engraved portrait of Robert Burns, shown from the waist up wearing a dark jacket and cravat, facing slightly to the left. — Robert Burns Robert Burns, engraving from *A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen*, 1870.

Beyond English and his native Scots, Robert Burns acquired a superficial reading knowledge of French and a bare smattering of Latin during his formal and sporadic schooling.1