Writer's Block: Parlez-vous francais?

[zrath]

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Zut alors! :D
Well, I'm pretty good at this English thing.
My French is not bad. :D
I know a little Spanish and wish I had full mastery of it.
Beyond that, Russian and Japanese would be neat to know.
But I don't think I will learn either.

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[dagoski.livejournal.com]

I really need to rebuild my Spanish. Used to be fluent twenty years ago.

Funny thing is that I actually have a credit of German on my college transcripts. The college lost the English manual for their Siemens X-ray Crystallography system. Those us doing Physical Chemistry that term really didn't want turn ourselves into Hiroshima style shadows on the wall or vaporize ourselves by shorting the thing out so we grabbed the German language manual, a mess of translating dictionaries and churned out a new English manual. It was easier than trying to coax Siemans into giving us a new one. That machine was scary, It had transformers the size of a dining room table!

I also thought I was going to have learn Russian or French. A lot of Physics PhD programs had those two languages as a graduation requirement years ago.