Dear Ms Independent:

I am not good at languages though. My first was French but I stopped speaking it when I was 6 (so I am told). As a teenager and a young adult, I was still able to understand conversational French and I tried to improve my speaking it, asked my mother to  help me.. but she didn’t. I guess she didn’t like how I sounded speaking (or trying to speak) French. (There is a whole lot that my mother didn’t like about me). My second language… I’ll keep it a secret for now but after not speaking it for so long, I lost a lot of the words: you lose what you don’t lose. English is the language I am most comfortable with. Did you ever try to learn words of a different language…and what language has the best sound to your ears?

anita