#I'm from Italian descent yes I am projecting

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Fun fact!!

Grusha speaks many languages despite barely speaking! He only knows Paldean Sign Language, but he can read write and speak:

English (Second language, speaks it better than Spanish at this point)

Japanese (Same as English, like Japanese version and English version y'know?)

French (Partially)

Spanish (First language)

Italian (Of Italian descent, Grandmother taught him Italian)

Romanian (Got bored and learned it for fun)

Mandarin (reading and writing only)

Arabic (reading and writing only)

Alright lemme explain. Grusha gets lonely on Glaseado. After the Initial group of challengers face his gym, that's basically it. He spends a lot of time learning languages for fun, he is fascinated by language. He grew up speaking Spanish bc (in my lore) Paldea speaks half Spanish half English and Grusha just happened to be born into a Spanish speaking family. After his parents left, he lived with his grandma and nobody else. She spoke little Spanish and even less English, but spoke fluent Italian because she was an immigrant. Grusha learned English to communicate easier with the other kids in his class, as he had been enrolled in a school that by total coincidence had very few Spanish speakers. He grew up trilingual.

Speaking Italian around his grandma, Spanish around other Paldeans, and English at school. Sometimes he'll fully forget words in any of those three languages and use words from different ones (Ex. Speaking full English and then saying "triste" instead of sad mid-sentence only to return right back to English). He speaks English most fluently as he spent most of his childhood at school, and despite most of his family being Spanish it is his worst language out of the main three. His skills in order of fluency are as follows:

Paldean Sign Language

English/Japanese

Italian

Spanish

Romanian

French

Mandarin

Arabic

He just started learning Arabic in hopes to read new books and learn different histories in places that spoke Arabic, so his Arabic is nowhere near as good as the rest. He only learned Mandarin to visit certain places and still be able to order things on menu's.