[Max Cairnduff]

As well as English, I speak Italian fairly well and intermediate Spanish. I speak and communicate better than I read, though I can read them (but I fare far better on technical texts than literature).

I can't speak French, I can read it at a basic level but that's it, which is rather a shame given how much French literature I want to read in the original. But there you go, work doesn't permit time for study, so that's likely to be a retirement project many years from now.