Xigung
All is now clear. You have enlightened me and I am
very grateful.
In Britain, certainly in England we are notoriously
bad at learning other languages. I suppose this is one of the cultural
disadvantages of being (once) an empire that spread the English language
round the world, which expected everyone else to learn English
because we couldn't be bothered to learn other people's languages. And as we
declined, the Americans took over.
This is a long-winded way of saying I admire your
ability to learn other languages and the apparent ease with which you do
it. I wish I had started forty years earlier.
Cheers,
Jed