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To: SoftwareEngineer
Not an ethnic - my grandparents migrated to the US.

I learned German at home, at catholic school, and at Das Verteidigungsspracheninstitut - The Defense Langauge Institute in CA. Valedictorian, Class 0184 DLIPSF.

Plus I lived there a number of years.

60 posted on 06/11/2011 9:30:43 AM PDT by patton (I am sure that I have done dumber things in my life, but at the moment, I am unable to recall them.)
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To: patton

I am very jealous of you that you learned another European language so well.

I am somewhat OK with Spanish now and my French is very rusty.

I will make sure that my kids speak ATLEAST two other european languages fluently and one Asian language by the time they are 18

Today, the more languages you know the more successful you are.

As the old joke goes:

What do you call a guy who speaks THREE languages..... TRI-Lingual

What do you call a guy who speaks TWO languages.. .BI-lingual

What do you call a guy who speaks ONE language....

.....

....

American!

The joke is on us.. we need to learn more languages like German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Hindi etc.


61 posted on 06/11/2011 10:07:40 AM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
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