♡ + languages
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chris speaks german, english & french ! he has a basic understanding of italian, but isn’t fluent enough to hold a conversation? he can recognize a few romansh words, but he only knows the most basic things like… ‘ i can’t understand ‘ or variations of that. i also do headcanon that he knows a very limited amount of russian, but it’s mostly because of a headcanon i had on another blog. i hc’d that viktor would be very adamant about teaching chris a small amount of russian??? ( but if i roleplay with someone who doesn’t feel that, i’m also okay w/ that ) but like —- chris isn’t good at speaking it. it’s heavily accented & he doesn’t remember half the words he knows most of the time.
he grew up in a german-speaking part of switzerland, but his mother spoke french a lot at home so he grew very comfortable with those two languages. he learned english in school & had a very basic understanding for a while — when he started competing more competitively, he learned the language quite a bit better so he could communicate with his other competitors?
he learned the basics of italian & the small amount of romansh that he knows in school. he did attend regular school until he was around 12 — but after that, he was schooled from home so he could pursue his career as a skater… his tutor did go over the different languages of switzerland, but only the basics. chris picked up on what was expanded on well — he excelled in learning different languages, which is probably the only reason he retained a good amount of what he knows of what hes not entirely comfortable with.










