General Discussion

My son's most fluent foreign language is French, with which he told me he's keeping up. His Spanish has lapsed some, but he said he's improving his Italian.

French is important since he's a nuclear engineer, and if he has to get out of the country, France would be a good place for him to go with his skill set.

Interestingly he told me this weekend - I didn't know this - that "Italian" is actually a default language in Italy, but that until unification, what we know today as "Italian" was a minor dialect, spoken in the Tuscany region, and that some Italian dialects are only marginally intelligible with one another.

He says he can read about 60% of the Italian he reads. (Italy recently discarded its laws against nuclear power.)

He's working on all of his languages. He expects, as many people do, that he may end up a refugee as the United States collapses for the most unbelievable cause, the accession of an orange pedophile conman to its Presidency.