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[waterspyder]

I just did French and English Grammar and Spelling tests...

English was no surprise (95%)

And I've decided that everyone that has ever told me that my French is sloppy or imperfect can kiss my ass. 
It wasn't perfect, but it was 80%.

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[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

I try to switch to French whenever I'm talking to Francophone friends or co-workers in order to keep some semblance of colloquial fluency... if you're managing on 5 minutes a month, I'm impressed!

He, and you, are right: Latin is all over the place, tarted up as French, Italian, Spanish, and scientific and literary English. I can read it somewhat, but I haven't got the grammar to write or speak it.

Greek is everywhere too, but it's less obvious because of the alphabet difference.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

I went to Greece and had a little forced crash course on how to read Greek otherwise I would have been lost on the subway... and in the streets... and in shops

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

I've gotten my crash course in the Greek alphabet through math and physics. There are even cases where we've run out of Greek letters and gone on into Hebrew (e.g. א, a notation for the cardinality of infinities) and Cyrillic (e.g. Ш, the "comb" function).