'The rock art gave me goosebumps': discovering the Amazon's lost archaeology

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7. I'm sure my interests were helped along by my...

Having spent most of my childhood in New England where I was exposed to many other languages and cultures including those in my own family, All grandparents spoke other languages from German to Finnish to Lithuanian. And then, when in grade school, we learned etymology of words as we learned them and also started reading and speaking French in the second grade. I was off to a good start from an early age, then I spent much of my first decades as an adult traveling all over the US and learned many dialects of American English, it's quite a thing.

It's a set of topics that still hold my interest through all these decades, fascinating and mysterious all at once.