ccdesan is a retired linguist. Had he been born in ancient Greece, he would have lived at Areopagus ("for all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing. Acts 17:21). As he was born in the 20th century, he lives at Wikipedia in spirit, although he parks his body in the United States.
This user has a Bachelor's Degree in French, a Master's Degree in Computational Linguistics, and is certified to teach English as a Second Language.
In addition to the languages listed at the right, this user has worked extensively with and/or can communicate at a basic level in Japanese, Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Lingala, Turkish, Swedish, Danish, Chinese and Yiddish. He is currently studyiing Hebrew and Norwegian. This user loves learning about the nature of the universe. He is fascinated by physics, chemistry, geology, biology, physiology, and astronomy, to name a few. Sadly, he is mathematically challenged and forever barred from a deeper understanding of the physical universe because he just "doesn't get" calculus. He is not ashamed to love all things Star Trek, especially the Next Generation.
When he's not trying to learn some new language, some of this user's favorite pasttimes are:
traveling - anywhere and whenever he can afford it, meeting old friends and making new ones.
family history - tracing his family's roots
reading - especially Science Fiction, especially from the 50's.
watching movies with lots of explosions and bad guys coming to hideous ends.
cooking and trying some new ethnic recipe
eating odd foods like haggis, natto, huitlacoche, and other things that others would find revolting.
gardening, growing his own food, and getting his hands covered with Mother Gaia
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