Is that a trick question?
1) 41 years of experience
2) 3 Graduate degrees in everything from linguistics to Tropical Agriculture--hehehe
3) Actually being here for 41 years teaches you a lot.
4) I read 5 newspapers and three or four foreign papers a day-almost everyday...
5) I listen to the "Man in the Street" What they say at the coffee shop, the gas station, the cigar factory, the golf course, the funeral home and the weddings.. etcetc.
6) And, since I am so modest, yet truthful, I am very intelligent.
>Is that okey with you??
HB
Edited to add: Again, in all modesty, I am fluent in the language, and I have some fantastically interesting and intelligent friends in all walks of life, and I listen more than I talk...except when I have two drinks too many and then I babble....