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conversant

 adjective
     
Related topics: Languages
con‧ver‧sant [not before noun]
1 formal having knowledge or experience of something
conversant with
Staff members are conversant with the issues.
2 American EnglishSLL able to hold a conversation in a foreign language, but not able to speak it perfectly
conversant in
Kim was conversant in Russian.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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