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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 690, member: 57463&quot;]I was lucky enough to be raised in a bilingual home and I took a lot of German from the 7th grade through college.&nbsp; (In fact, I started at a college in the 7th grade...)&nbsp; Anyway, along the way, I took college classes in Japanese and community ed classes in Italian and Arabic.&nbsp; I taught myself to read enough Tibetan to decipher Tangkas for an article.&nbsp; I learned enough classical Greek to translate the Treaty of Mytilene for publication.</p><p><br /></p><p>It always floors me when people find a coin that says &quot;Republique Francaise&quot; and they say they do not know where it is from.&nbsp; To me, it seems pretty easy that Suomi is Finland and Magyar means Hungarian.&nbsp; I can tell Korean from Chinese from Japanese, even though my Japanese is weak and Korean is way beyond me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>How about you?&nbsp; If you scoop a foreign coin from the CoinStar machine, can you tell where it is from?</p><p><br /></p><p>Did you enjoy foreign language classes in school?</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you use languages other than English now?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you picked up an numismatic auction catalog in German or French, could you hack the descriptions while looking at the picture of the coin?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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