On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Augusto Haro wrote:
... I speak Spanish, and in my experience and from what other countrymen of me tell me, we study English to a greater degree than French just because most scientific writings are written in English instead of French or any other language. If I were in the late XIX century, I
Long ago (koff koff) when I got by chemistry BS, we had to take German because a lot of the relevant work was in German. No idea if that's
still case.
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