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I'm learning Swedish in addition to Japanese, where does that place me?

English has borrowed and/or adopted these words from Spanish: adobe (brick); armadillo (little armed one); armada; alligator (el lagarto= the lizard); siesta; vanilla (Spanish original is vainilla); mosquito (little fly); tomato (originally tomate, taken from the Nahuatl tomatl). There are...