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I took about 2 years of German at the University of Nevada, Reno and then 2 years of French there also winning the Outstanding Reader of French award. Then a year of night classes in Spanish at the College of San Mateo in CA. And a Reading Dutch class at the U of MN as well as a refresher in Reading German. Also dabbled with Reading Italian and took for a short time Chinese, Japanese and Russian. I thought while I was working at the U of MN I might as well work on my hobby of languages. But if you do not use them, you often lose them .


I was nothing but having fun with these languages.