Si, es verdad, mon ami -. You have a keen ear-- and we know that French, Italian and Spanish are 3 common Romance languages, all with their roots in Latin. Part of my schooling involved Latin, being Catholic- and then High School, with 2 years of Spanish. Our teacher for that was also the German language teacher, so I picked up a few phrases and that got me interested in languages, and how English has its roots.. I speak French with a Spanish accent--My literary hero, the late Ernest Miller Hemingway, fluent in French, Spanish, Italian and the Basque tongue from Northern Spain was also a student of World history, "como asi moi"" Via con Dios-- El Zorro

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..