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[CNN Money] What makes Bill Gates feel ‘pretty stupid?’

January 28, 2015

 

Microsoft founder Bill Gates arrives at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Microsoft founder Bill Gates arrives at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

[CNN Money] —  ”I feel pretty stupid that I don’t know any foreign languages,” Gates said Wednesday in an online Reddit chat.

“I took Latin and Greek in high school and got A’s and I guess it helps my vocabulary but I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese,” he said. “I keep hoping to get time to study one of these – probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for a while but didn’t keep it up. Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Mandarin and did a Q&A with Chinese students – incredible.” [READ MORE]