Your girl has decided to teach herself German on her own rather that try to learn it through someone else or a "method." After all, when she was in college (Linguistics at University of Texas)) and had to pass a test on learning second language, she whipped through her exam with flying colors--in fact, she was the first person in the room to turn her exam in and the proctors were very suspicious of her, especially when she wanted to leave the room immediately because, as she kept explaining to them , her dog (a Lyndon Johnson Beagle) was having puppies.
How did Fiorella do it, you ask? Easy--she chose the language she heard almost every day, but had never studied or used herself--FRENCH, the native tongue of her best friend, Nichole Domingue. Also, she (at college picked up a dingy little French language book in a second-hand store in Waco, her home town, the next time she visited her parents--a book she still has tucked away somewhere in her art/music/languages shelves in case some one wants to check her out.
Oops, regarding the easyness, Fio doesn't want to leave out her high school "book learning." After all, French is derived from Latin, and Miss Osborn was the BEST--she even attended your girl's final college graduation!
Getting back to Fiorella's decision to give German a shot, Fio won't be totally alone. Not only does she have a textbook left over from when she took that ein semester of German in college, but one of her cousins has taught himself the language.
Hmmm....maybe it runs in the family. (Hi, Tom!)
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