>>>>>Well, my German grammar is terrible - only a few reminiscences (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reminiscence)
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>>>>But at least you can express yourself. I'm limited to the native dialect of the mountains where I grow up and the foreign languages of german, english and a rotten russian. (^.^)
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>>>>Agnes
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>>>Now I have a serious question: German is not your native language? Which mountains?
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>>>(And, sitting in for Dragan, which rotten Russian?)
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzgebirge
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>>Mine. Eleven years of scool and I have problems to count up to ten in russian.
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>Dunno - Is Russian important to you ?
>But you were taught German at school, I suppose
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>Cannot say that your English is terrible though

Her English is not terrible at all. A hiccup once in a while but mostly charming.

FWIW I picture Agnes as a stout German lady aged 54 or so. Very smart.