My ties to California is fading away...

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yayy!!! my SoCal house is in escrow with a backup offer. Sad to leave it but life moves on. That was pretty quick. 4 days on market and we started discussion on what was to be in the contract.

On slightly different topic, as I was surfing youtube for different musik and coming across Norwegian country music and other "odd" things, youtube popped up several videos on polyglots. Me neighbor is one of those though he claim he isn't. Speaks English (taught as a school teacher), knows Swahilli, German, Norwegian (Bokmal), Swedish, fluent in Itallian, Spanish (proper European) and god knows what else.

YES HE IS A NORWEGIAN with tales to tell of his youth in Norway. Really funny. And oh yes he did say that country music is very big there, though he did say that he never went to a western style bar in Norway...

Anyway, Listening to the polyglots talk about how they learned other languages got me excited about learning languages just for the fun of it. My neighbor says I'm a polyglot of sort. I don't think three languages count: English Japanese and German. But its a start. So I've asked him if wouldn't mind teaching me Norwegian and Swedish :-) And his face just lit up and says he has Norwegian text books. oh ohhh.... Scandinavian languages are pretty close to German so it would be easier. And I also know some one who is fluent in Dutch. It's a good way to get completely confused and have my head screwed in a weird way. Another spoke fluent Catalan but she is in So Cal. For now I'll just stick to the Germanic languages.

It's an opportunity I shouldn't pass up. And most of them says work on grammar, speaking and listening and rest will come naturally. That is the way I learned to speak English. Never fear make lots of mistakes is what the polyglots says. Give it a try. keep me out of trouble.