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Congratulations and good luck, Laurie. I've had somewhat similar experiences with music, languages, and the Internet. On several occasions, I have tried to look up something about classical music on Wikipedia, only to find that my question has been addressed in the German or French language edition, but not in the English language edition. Classical music is more highly valued in Europe than in the US. I bought our charango from a luthier in Argentina. I did all my research via the internet. My wife thought that the money I sent via Western Union would disappear into a hole, but sure enough I ended up with a beautiful charango a few months later. You can see it on my profile page. German is a pretty logical language. You could've used me to help you! haha Well now I'll be glad I took German in highschool if I want to purchase from that store. :) ;) I can speak Spanish and English. But not German, I wish I could speak about six languages! Laurie,next time you need a Curci edition drop me an e.mail and Iìll send it post haste. My first degree was in Spanish and German languages and literatures. I also took French, and some Russian. I picked up some Hungarian while dancing with a performing group.

I had a great time in Europe talking to everyone, but unfortunately I could not make a living with this skill. It's quite nice to have in my back pocket, though! :-)

When I was a teenager in pre-internet days I ordered some transistors from France. They were Motorola Europe types that you couldn't get in the U.S. I couldn't get specs on them to find substitutes and I didn't understand the circut enough to determine the requirements and substitute that way. Somehow I got an address in France. I sent them a letter with a random amount of American money in it :) I got back a whole bag of assorted transistors with a very nice note from a French girl. I wrote her again, but she never wrote back. Maybe I scared her off. I don't remember what I said but typically I come on pretty strong:) Janet, thank you for the offer... I might still need your help if it doesn't show up! Good Luck Laurie! I hope it comes Soon! I have ordered a lot of stuff from china and france and always gotten the stuff. But I speak a lot of french so that is always a plus. But I always translated the web page when ordering from china/japan. I hope you get the same luck I got! I would just like to see us teach English well---even this language is slipping our grasps. The foreign students I meet at LSU use our language better than we do! Studying foreign languages is my other passion---besides violin. I couldn't agree with you more about the dismal state of language education in the U.S. It's a disgrace that foreign language study isn't required for high school graduation (yes, I know it is in CA, but only for two years, and it isn't in all other states).