(My waitress speaks Estonian, Russian, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French

(My waitress speaks Estonian, Russian, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Czech. Damn. And she’s a waitress. I can fake my way through travel german, french, Spanish, and Italian with a week or two of exposure. I can pretty much read German but I have to look up a bunch of the words, and I get the gist of Russian well enough to read newspapers. I guess learning curt-speak has taken all my efforts. But I am humbled by these people with four or more languages. Yesterday another waitress went from table to table and it was funny to watch that she could switch between languages easily, except switching away from Russian made her get stuck. So to mess with her, I switched between Russian and English. She laughed.)