Hi! Holger,

On Wed, 18 Dec 13, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> It's a good thing that it's the only language that I have to know. :)

 HG> For me it's quite easy to learn languages so I'm happy to read/write
 HG> swedish, english, german and finnish. I was lucky to learn finnish as
 HG> a kid since it's a very difficult language to learn by grammar or 
 HG> after one has become a teen-ager.

It was deemed by my high school staff that I didn't have the required
smarts to learn any other languages.  My failings in English must have been
a clue.  :)  I did enjoy both Latin & French but I was always doing
'translation' into every day street talk in English, and not the required
verbatim textbook style... which bored me to tears.  My teachers never
realised this, and never pulled me up for it.  The groundwork in those
languages has been a life-long bonus.

I've picked up a few simple words & phrases in other languages since
school.  Just enough to compare similarities but not enough to carry out
any conversations.  I enjoy learning snippets of languages to this day.

Have you ever considered pulling-in the ENGLISH_TUTOR echo?  We're having
lots of fun with some young Russian fellas there, helping with their
yearning to learn to use English more effectively.

 HG> In a way I'm quite lucky because math, algebra and trigonometry also
 HG> sat quite well which I have understood is a bit unusual in
 HG> combination with language sensitivity.

Oh, no!  Another failing for me was maths.  My absolute worst sunject!

Cheers,
Paul.

... "The path to the stars is paved with sorrow."  Charles Logan, 1975.
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