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Our house and cars have now officially been converted to Language Labs of Fun as we both attempt to resurrect our long dormant respective language skills. If you were to visit us of an evening any more, you’d hear a French mademoiselle sweetly uttering her lines about ordering bread and directions to the nearest store floating from our computer. You’d see me hunkered over my German review books, writing out exercises with a determination I never felt in all my years of German class. We each have appointments with our more linguistically apt and practiced friends/colleagues in order to get our languages in working order for the telephone language tests. The major difficulty has been that we don’t share the same foreign language and, hence, cannot study together. Once we are assigned (hopefully at the same post, as desired) this will change and we will finally share a foreign language and can practice together. For now, though, it has to be a crazy mix of German and French with every spare second.

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