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Vienna_70 said:
I love Germany too.

I spent a brilliant semester at Potsdam University from October 2001 to February 2002. I even dreamt in German a couple of times.
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My bro ( and late dad had)the ability to switch easily between English and German. Pre retirement bro career was a business person so all thought was in German. I've never asked him about dreaming! Unfortunately the linguist gene by passed me, I found German easy first year of GCE, then got bored and gave up, French hard at first, got easier, gave up. I was clearly fairly intelligent, we all went to Grammar School, but unlike other family members I didn't do uni after A levels. I regret not appreciating the good education I got, but it did stand me in good stead during my career when I finally got 'it' out of my system ( ie good times late 70s/ late 80s) before I got serious about life and work. I did OK, but never did bother with the languages!
 
Vienna_70 said:
Junior, apparently.

I turned 63 in September, so I have nearly two years, until I become a fully-fledged FOC. Welcome to the junior section.
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Welcome to the world of FOC Vienna. And belated birthday greetings. I am a December birthday too, but I don't bother counting now. All I wanted at 60 was that senior railcard, and finally a couple of years ago got the much coveted senior bus pass, which I will use on the matchday bus when attending games resumes after hubs next surgery next year. X
 
69FACUPfinal said:
Welcome to the world of FOC Vienna. And belated birthday greetings. I am a December birthday too, but I don't bother counting now. All I wanted at 60 was that senior railcard, and finally a couple of years ago got the much coveted senior bus pass, which I will use on the matchday bus when attending games resumes after hubs next surgery next year. X
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Best of luck to your husband and his surgery and subsequent recovery.

I hope everything goes well for him.
 
69FACUPfinal said:
My bro ( and late dad had)the ability to switch easily between English and German. Pre retirement bro career was a business person so all thought was in German. I've never asked him about dreaming! Unfortunately the linguist gene by passed me, I found German easy first year of GCE, then got bored and gave up, French hard at first, got easier, gave up. I was clearly fairly intelligent, we all went to Grammar School, but unlike other family members I didn't do uni after A levels. I regret not appreciating the good education I got, but it did stand me in good stead during my career when I finally got 'it' out of my system ( ie good times late 70s/ late 80s) before I got serious about life and work. I did OK, but never did bother with the languages!
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Learning languages seems to come naturally to me. I loved French at school a I went from practically no knowledge of German to a 'B' grade A-level in four years, via an A* at GCSE.

I also attained a 2.i degree in German and French as a mature student.

I also speak a little Finnish, having spent a year in the country back in my youth, though I’ve forgotten more than I’ve retained of the language.
 
Vienna_70 said:
Learning languages seems to come naturally to me. I loved French at school a I went from practically no knowledge of German to a 'B' grade A-level in four years, via an A* at GCSE.

I also attained a 2.i degree in German and French as a mature student.

I also speak a little Finnish, having spent a year in the country back in my youth, though I’ve forgotten more than I’ve retained of the language.
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Was your dad my dad??!!

Seriously, though well achieved.I
 
Vienna_70 said:
Thank you.

I’m very proud of myself.
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You should be. Mine was the fact that I hated maths ( did get the GCE), later in career designed financial processing databases, and those formulas and quadratic equations actually came in useful. Who knew that when I was restless in classes from 69-74, and scrawling my current beau's name all over my exercise book!! Now then my dad was good at maths so maybe something DID get inherited....
 
Vienna_70 said:
Learning languages seems to come naturally to me. I loved French at school a I went from practically no knowledge of German to a 'B' grade A-level in four years, via an A* at GCSE.

I also attained a 2.i degree in German and French as a mature student.

I also speak a little Finnish, having spent a year in the country back in my youth, though I’ve forgotten more than I’ve retained of the language.
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Clever FOC.:-)
 
My languages at A level were Latin and Ancient Greek. They were extremely useful when I worked on a EU project which covered Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Nederland, Spain and Italy, but not Greece.
 
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