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To: jlallen who wrote (965715)	9/19/2016 5:31:26 PM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1575338

If you don't use a language, or have other ways and means utilized to keep it up, you loose it. I know, because my French still back aro 1970-74 was quite good. Then I moved to Germany and starting working hard on improving my rusty school German - and my French went down the basket. Now, have you once learned a language, it still sits in there and only needs to be worked on to come back on. As for the Roman languages, my recommendation would be the original Michel Thomas basic course, his original 'Language Builder' and on top of that his original advanced. Very unique and believe me, it works! I say original, because within his estate, they have added a bunch of new courses and languages not so good IMO. These days I live in Italy and... Let's stop here, OK? A funny one: My big son, born and raised in Munich with German (English and Japanese from the summers in Japan) has a Swedish passport. Eventually at age 17 he took a year off for school in Sweden, learned Swedish to perfection in a year, got back to Germany - but at 19 went back to Sweden and did his college years and Masters there. He lives there but we, both Swedish born (almost) speakers, always communicate in - German!!! Just an old habit, difficult to break, I guess. Yet another example: His wife, an MD, did a Ph.D, and I was there and so was my sister from Copenhagen, both of us born and initially raised in Sweden, while communicating with the other guests in Swedish, used Danish between us. Others at the table thought that being strange... well, except for the first 10-12 years of our life we have always spoken Danish to each others, an old habit not easy to break. Well, for people moving around, nothing new. I knew a girl from my business in Palo Alto. She was born to Dutch parents but grew up in Brazil, later went to college and studied in CA. Her father was a diplomat and she had also spent many years growing up in Indonesia. You can imagine her language skills :)