Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[Mike Schwartz]

> I had a bilingual education, and aver, assert and proclaim that I speak
> English totally fluently.  If the "bi-" side has suffered in my case,
> it's that in recent years I have had only sporadic occasions to read or
> write French.
> 
> --
> JP

    The question is, "which Bi?"  I took a year of Latin in high school,
then dropped it instead of taking a 2nd year, which cost me an honors
diploma.  My Junior and Senior year I took German,  then in College I took 2
years of Russian.  Ironically, the Latin probably did me more good than the
other languages combined, although I was able to eves drop on my older
relatives when they spoke German at the dinner table... <grin>

    I encouraged my children to take Spanish or French, because I thought
that would be most practical for them, but my daughter insisted on taking
German for 5 years and my 7th grade son hates his Spanish and wants to drop
it and not take any languages.

    The only thing good about all this is that they are starting children in
languages at the grade school level.  My daughter began taking German in 6th
grade, and my son started Spanish in 2nd grade.  However, I'd hate to think
about visiting a Lowes and being almost totally dependent on my son's
Spanish speaking ability.

Mike Schwartz