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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I read Chaucer as written. I always do so with any book, if I can. That means I can read Dutch, German and English back to around +/- 1400 or so, if I take my time. (A LOT of time, in the case of German...) Oh, and Japanese, if it's a story for 4 year olds, written in Hiragana AND I have a dictionary handy  |
Well, you win. I used to be able to r/w/s Spanish, German, Italian and some Portuguese, but lack of use has probably robbed me of all of it. The Spanish was taught, the German was learned the best way (living in Germany, but decades ago), the Italian and Portuguese picked up via travel and truthfully, they're not hard once you have Spanish.
Now, I can barely remember what I'm doing in English, which is purportedly my cradle language. :-D
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