From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:3f96c67a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Phil Payne wrote:
>
> >>Takes a while to learn Russian. 
> >
> >
> > Depends.  A few years ago the UK's GCHQ advertised for fluent Russian
> > speakers.  At the bottom it said that applications from speakers of
"other
> > infected languages, such as German" would be considered.
> >
> The idea being that if you've learned one second language, a third is
> even easier to learn. I don't know the accuracy of it though.

From my limited experience it is quite accurate. After English and Swedish,
German was pretty easy to pick up. I've never studied French at all but
still I can sort of figure out what's being discussed sometimes from a
conversation held in French, so I think it would be relatively easy to
learn.


Antti Kurenniemi

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