Foreign Languages

20 out of 45 (44%) presidents spoke a second language.
The most popular foreign language was Latin - 14
John Quincy Adams had proficiency in the most languages - 8.
* Was not fluent.
+ Martin Van Buren was a native Dutch speaker. He was the only president who was not raised with English as his first language.

Rank	#	President	# Presidents
1		Latin	14
	2	John Adams
	3	Thomas Jefferson
	4	James Madison
	6	John Quincy Adams
	8	Martin Van Buren	*
	9	William Henry Harrison
	10	John Tyler
	11	James K. Polk
	15	James Buchanan
	19	Rutherford B. Hayes
	20	James A. Garfield
	21	Chester A. Arthur
	31	Herbert Hoover
	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	*
2		Greek	9
	3	Thomas Jefferson
	4	James Madison
	6	John Quincy Adams	*
	10	John Tyler
	11	James K. Polk
	15	James Buchanan
	19	Rutherford B. Hayes
	20	James A. Garfield
	21	Chester A. Arthur
3		French	7
	2	John Adams
	3	Thomas Jefferson
	5	James Monroe
	6	John Quincy Adams
	9	William Henry Harrison	*
	26	Theodore Roosevelt
	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt
4		German	5
	6	John Quincy Adams
	26	Theodore Roosevelt
	28	Woodrow Wilson
	32	Franklin D. Roosevelt
	42	Bill Clinton	*
5		Spanish	4
	3	Thomas Jefferson
	6	John Quincy Adams	*
	39	Jimmy Carter	*
	43	George W. Bush	*
6		Italian	3
	3	Thomas Jefferson
	6	John Quincy Adams	*
	26	Theodore Roosevelt	*
7		Dutch	2
	6	John Quincy Adams	*
	8	Martin Van Buren	+
8		Arabic	1
	3	Thomas Jefferson	*
8		Chinese	1
	31	Herbert Hoover	*
8		Hebrew	1
	4	James Madison
8		Russian	1
	6	John Quincy Adams	*
-		English only	25
	1	George Washington
	7	Andrew Jackson
	12	Zachary Taylor
	13	Millard Fillmore
	14	Franklin Pierce
	16	Abraham Lincoln
	17	Andrew Johnson
	18	Ulysses S. Grant
	22 & 24	Grover Cleveland
	23	Benjamin Harrison
	25	William McKinley
	27	William H. Taft
	29	Warren G. Harding
	30	Calvin Coolidge
	33	Harry S. Truman
	34	Dwight D. Eisenhower
	35	John F. Kennedy
	36	Lyndon B. Johnson
	37	Richard M. Nixon
	38	Gerald R. Ford
	40	Ronald Reagan
	41	George H. W. Bush
	44	Barack Obama
	45	Donald J. Trump
	46	Joe Biden

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