[RerRibreLok]

That is an impressive collection. I wish you luck with the Russian. I was fortunate enough to find a very nice Russian "language exchange" partner here, so I am trying to learn some too. Unfortunately I have neglected my German, which is a wasted opportunity.

Thanks. Unfortunately, my collection is mostly the linguistic equivalent of knick-nacks right now; I'd bet nearly all of the bi- and tri-lingual folks on this forum know more vocabulary in just their second language than I do in all my secondary languages combined.

Good luck with your Russian studies also. I know exactly how you feel with German - I was moderately fluent in it back in high school and college, but with no one to practice with since then my fluency has fallen apart. I bet it would come back to us fairly quickly, though, if we had a real need for it.

All I can advise here, is, if you want to be a polyglot pray-er, be careful not to get old, because when you get as old as I am, you may let your dimming mind wander from language to language within the same prayer!

"and ever o'er it's Babel sounds, the blessèd angels sing...."

Mary Emily
Kyrie pomilui

No problem, God still understands us. And it's better than wandering from distraction to distraction and realizing at the end of your prayer that you can't remember what you were praying!

Gospodi eleison,
Mike