Spanish was William F. Buckley Jr.'s first language. He was born in New York City to an American father and a Mexican mother. Buckley spent his early childhood in Mexico, where he learned to speak Spanish fluently. He later moved to the United States, where he attended school and eventually became a prominent conservative writer and commentator.
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