Good enough to read this–with a dictionary. (I’m out of practice; not much of my work calls for foreign languages these days.) It always does amuse me how the flow of Italian comes to a screeching halt whenever a foreign word like “blog” appears.

So did they interview you in Italian, or in English? I remembered that you were fluent in Spanish and good in Dutch, but not that you spoke Italian.

Amusing point about the Mediterranean love of talking. I didn’t notice that the English disliked talking–they just don’t talk about *themselves* as much.