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.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
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