Thanks for sharing your story.

If I weren’t born Iranian, I’d learn Persian too just for the beautiful poems and songs that I haven’t seen in any other language (Arabic and Urdu could come close though).

4: Persian, English, Chinese, French

I used to be able to do so in Esperanto and Arabic as well but not anymore.

I’d rather let some EU company like Qwant use my anonymized data, to hopefully someday build their own index, than use Google by proxy (except when neccessary, of course).