[UA] oh my goodness....

[Walter F. Croft]

on 3/14/03 4:51 AM, it was written by José Nunes Porfirio:

>> I'm fair with a few spoken languages outside of native American English:
>> Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, some Spanish. But definitely not a
>> translator.
> 
> I'm Impressed!
> 
> JP
> 
Nothing special. Only because I'm half-Chinese (Mom) and my wife is from
Hong Kong (so I'm learning Cantonese; very colloquial language that doesn't
translate well into written form). I'm practically illiterate though since
I've never had much formal schooling with Chinese.

I took 12 semester hours of Russian about 13 years ago in college and can
still can carry a decent conversation with my Russian colleagues. I can read
at about the 3rd grade-level.

Spanish is something I'm working on these days. Lots of opportunities to
learn here in the South ("Hotlanta") with the Hispanic immigrants.

Walter


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